Sextortion is back and this time it looks personal

Over the last few weeks you may well have received an email that quotes an old password you once used. It tells you that your account has been hacked, that malware has been placed on your machine to capture data and that you’ve been recorded watching porn. It then demands that you cough up some Bitcoin -- amounts vary -- to prevent this webcam video from being made public on your social networks. It is, of course, a classic sextortion scam. There is no malware and no video, they just want to scare you into thinking there is in the… [Continue Reading]