Experts antivirus company ESET has documented the massive spam attack targeting visitors to porn sites from Russia, USA, Germany, France, Spain and the Czech Republic, according to ForkLog.
The publication notes that fraudsters extort users of bitcoin threatened to publish the video, which they allegedly failed to record via the webcam of the victim while watching porn.
If the extortionists do not receive the ransom for 0,45 BTC (about 150 thousand) in 48 hours, they threatened to send incriminating entry in the contact list of the victim.
Their threats Blackmailers can accompany imitation send emails from the mail address of the victim or to include in the text of the letter the real login and password of the user, the resulting leakage of personal data.
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“Attacks on consumers of the Internet’s total smut content by using social engineering deprive the victim of critical thinking, and she was sure that her web camera is hacked,” say the experts at ESET.
They advise users to use antivirus protection feature webcam from hacking, and if the attacker has specified their username or password to change them and activate two-factor authentication.
As previously reported, the cyber-police has exposed the Ukrainians in the theft of crypto over half a million hryvnia. The suspect — 35-year-old resident of Kyiv region, who provided technical support for the British exchange since the online cryptocurrency exchange.
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