Earlier this month we 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 my attention last week by security researcher
SecGuru who has seen thousands of these email being distributed.
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While the previous campaign utilized passwords found in data dumps from hacks, these emails instead use a partial phone number of the recipient. This information is used in the extortion emails to scare the recipient into thinking that the scammer actually hacked their phones and taken video of them through the phone's camera while they were on adult sites.
You can see the full text of one of these sextortion emails below.
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