Sextortion emails take a dark turn and are now trying to infect users with the GandCrab ransomware.
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But this week, sextortion scams took another very dangerous turn. Security researchers at Proofpoint have told ZDNet that they've seen a variation of a sextortion scam campaign that included a link at the bottom of the blackmail message [in full
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The scammers claimed to have a video of the user pleasuring himself while visiting adult sites, and they urged the user to access the link and see for himself. But Proofpoint says that instead of a video, users received a ZIP file with a set of malicious files inside.
Users who downloaded and ran these files would be infected by the AZORult malware, which would immediately download and install the GandCrab ransomware.