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16:15 17/04/2020
We have recently received an increased number of calls from people who have been contacted by cyber scammers who threaten to share videos of victims visiting adult websites.
This is known as sextortion, which is a type of phishing attack where people are coerced to pay a bitcoin ransom in exchange for not having any potentially compromising or embarrassing videos of themselves shared.
These scams are made to appear all the more credible because they provide seemingly plausible technical details about how this was achieved, and the phish can sometimes also include an individual’s password.
As with most phishing emails they’ll often contain poor grammar and spelling and sometimes using a different font so they don’t get filtered to your junk mailbox.
Such phishing emails are sent out on mass, but password details can make them seem very real. Usually old password details have been obtained during a past data breach.
It is extremely unlikely that your password has been taken as a result of any kind of malware on your computer or mobile device. It does, however add a degree of credibility to the threat, making some people believe that they really have been spied on.
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