Earlier this month bleeping computer reported on an ongoing extortion email campaign that emailed recipients their password and stated hackers had recorded the them over their webcam while they visited adult sites. Over the past week, scammers are now utilizing a new extortion email campaign that claims the recipient’s phone was hacked, includes a partial phone number of the recipient, and further states that they created videos using the recipient’s webcam. It then demands $1,000 USD in bitcoins or the hacker will release the video and other information. This new campaign was brought to their attention last week by security researcher SecGuru who has seen thousands of these email being distributed.
Tim Helming, Director of Product Management at DomainTools:
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