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Sextortion Scam Uses Recipient’s Hacked Passwords
Here’s a clever new twist on an old email scam that could serve to make the con far more believable. The message purports to have been sent from a hacker who’s compromised your computer and used your...
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The Year Targeted Phishing Went Mainstream
A story published here on July 12 about a new sextortion-based phishing scheme that invokes a real password used by each recipient has become the most-read piece on KrebsOnSecurity since this site...
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Who’s Behind the Screencam Extortion Scam?
The sextortion email scam last month that invoked a real password used by each recipient and threatened to release embarrassing Webcam videos almost certainly was not the work of one criminal or even...
View ArticleSpammed Bomb Threat Hoax Demands Bitcoin
A new email extortion scam is making the rounds, threatening that someone has planted bombs within the recipient’s building that will be detonated unless a hefty bitcoin ransom is paid by the end of...
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Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com
Two of the most disruptive and widely-received spam email campaigns over the past few months — including an ongoing sextortion email scam and a bomb threat hoax that shut down dozens of schools,...
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Crooks Continue to Exploit GoDaddy Hole
Godaddy.com, the world’s largest domain name registrar, recently addressed an authentication weakness that cybercriminals were using to blast out spam through legitimate, dormant domains. But several...
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Nuclear Bot Author Arrested in Sextortion Case
Last summer, a wave of sextortion emails began flooding inboxes around the world. The spammers behind this scheme claimed they’d hacked your computer and recorded videos of you watching porn, and...
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Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter Target Resellers of Hacked Accounts
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter this week all took steps to crack down on users involved in trafficking hijacked user accounts across their platforms. The coordinated action seized hundreds of...
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