Latest Blackmail news

Dutch hacker jailed for extortion, selling stolen data on RaidForums

A former Dutch cybersecurity professional was sentenced to four years in prison after being found guilty of hacking and blackmailing more than a dozen companies in the Netherlands and worldwide.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 03, 2023
- 04:09 PM
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Sextortionists are making AI nudes from your social media images

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning of a rising trend of malicious actors creating deepfake nude content from social media images to perform sextortion attacks.
- Bill Toulas
- June 06, 2023
- 04:43 PM
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Extortionists threaten to destroy sites in fake ransom attacks

Scammers are targeting website owners with blackmail messages asking them to pay ransoms between $1,500 and $3,000 in bitcoins to avoid having their sites' databases leaked and their reputation destroyed.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 14, 2020
- 10:07 AM
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Rail vehicle manufacturer Stadler hit by cyberattack, blackmailed

International rail vehicle construction company, Stadler, disclosed that it was the victim of a cyberattack which might have also allowed the attackers to steal company and employee data.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- May 09, 2020
- 09:00 AM
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Sodinokibi Ransomware Says Travelex Will Pay, One Way or Another

The attackers behind the Sodinokibi Ransomware are applying pressure on Travelex to pay a multi-million dollar ransom by stating they will release or sell stolen data that allegedly contains customer's personal information.
- Lawrence Abrams
- January 09, 2020
- 12:19 PM
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Apple Blackmailed for $100K in iTunes Cards to Avoid 'Data Leak'

22-year old Londoner Kerem Albayrak was sentenced today after attempting to blackmail Apple by threatening to factory reset 319 million iCloud accounts and selling the users' data.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- December 20, 2019
- 04:21 PM
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Hacker Selling User Info Stolen From Prostitution Forums

Popular prostitution and escort forums in the Netherlands and Italy have suffered data breaches that exposed the usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords for their registered members.
- Lawrence Abrams
- October 10, 2019
- 03:10 PM
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PsiXBot Modular Malware Gets New Sextortion, Google DoH Upgrades

Security researchers discovered a new variant of the PsiXBot modular malware with a new sextortion module and designed to use Google's DNS over HTTPS (DoH) service to get command and control (C2) domain addresses.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- September 09, 2019
- 02:00 PM
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New Bomb Threat Email Scam Campaign Demanding $20K in Bitcoin

A new twist in the scam extortion emails is a new email campaign originating from Russia that contains a bomb threat stating they will detonate a bomb if the recipient does not send a $20,000 USD bitcoin payment.
- Lawrence Abrams
- December 13, 2018
- 04:38 PM
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Adult Site Blackmail Spammers made Over $50K in One Week

After examining 42 bitcoin addresses associated with a current extortion scam, it was discovered that over $50,000 USD in payments have been made.
- Lawrence Abrams
- July 19, 2018
- 09:52 AM
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Blackmail Campaign Pretending to be WannaCry Is Really Just WannaSpam

A new spam campaign is underway that pretends to be from a group called the "WannaCry-Hack-Team" that states the infamous WannaCry Ransomware has returned, the recipients computer is infected, and they need to send some bitcoins or their files will be deleted.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 22, 2018
- 10:58 AM
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Some Memcached DDoS Attackers Are Asking for a Ransom Demand in Monero

DDoS extortionists have already pounced on the Memcached DDoS attack vector in attempts to extract payments from attacked companies.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- March 02, 2018
- 07:34 PM
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BlackMailware Found On Porn Site Threatens to Report Users are Spreading Child Porn

A new infection is being distributed by porn sites that tries to blackmail a victim into paying a ransom by stating they will tell law enforcement that the victim is spreading child porn.
- Lawrence Abrams
- January 25, 2018
- 03:18 PM
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