Tag: Blackmail
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Instagram Unmasks High Profile ‘OG’ Account Stealers, Threatens to Sue
Motherboard first published an in-depth investigation into the OGUsers forum in 2018, which showed that members sold social media and …
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Hackers Are Taking Over ‘Warzone’ Accounts and Extorting Owners
In Warzone, players fight to be the last team standing among 150 players. As people play more, they gain experience to unlock new weapons, …
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REvil gang threaten to auction celebrity data from Mariah Carey, Lebron James, MTV and more
What would you do if your law firm to the stars were to be presented with this choice: pay us $42 million or we’ll sell Mariah Carey’s …
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Sextortion emails and porn scams are back – don’t let them scare you!
We’ve seen a recent surge of concern about sextortion emails over the last few days. A sextortion or porn scam email is where …
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Inside an Instagram Celebrity Hacking Campaign
Do you know anything else about Instagram hacking? Do you work at …
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Hacker Who Tried to Blackmail Apple for $100,000 Sentenced in London
A 22-year-old man who claimed to have access to over 300 million iCloud accounts and threatened to factory reset all accounts unless Apple …
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Sextortion with a twist of Litecoin
By now many of us are probably pretty familiar with the widespread phenomenon of sextortion email scams. Typically the emails arrive in …
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Influencers Pay Thousands to Get Back Into Their Hacked Instagram Accounts
So many Instagram influencers need help regaining access to their hacked accounts that a white hat hacker who helps them is now charging …
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Hacker wants $300 for 250,000 records stolen from sex worker site
A hacker has stepped through a hole in vBulletin web software to steal all email addresses from a Dutch website for prostitution and escort …
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PsiXBot Adds PornModule, Google DNS Service to Its Arsenal
The PsiXBot malware has made a few changes in recent weeks, including implementing Google’s DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and adding the …
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The lucrative business of Bitcoin sextortion scams
After a quiet period following a surge in late 2018 to early 2019, the online blackmail scheme known as sextortion scams are back on the …
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Blackmailed for Bitcoin – exchange rebuffs $3.5m ransom demand
Here’s a story of super-sized digital blackmail aimed at one of the biggest exchanges out there. KYC As you probably know, business are …
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