Despite the good intentions associated with them, cryptocurrencies are often used by criminals and are increasingly demanded in ransom.
According to a report by Motherboard, scammers have made around half a million US dollars from the sextortion e-mails doing the rounds earlier this summer. The extortionists claimed to have videos obtained through hacked webcams of people doing “nasty things” while watching porn.
Cybersecurity experts have found that this particular scam has been quite profitable, without that much of an effort required from the scammers.
“What is worrying is that scammers were able to siphon off $500,000 from old passwords dumps, with very little effort,&rdq...
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