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Who’s Behind the Screencam Extortion Scam?

August 25, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, Active Sun Network, AdGenics, Barbarich_Viacheslav_Yuryevich, Breadcrumbs, Cabo Networks, Hicham Aallam, mtaexpert, rescator, Ron Guilmette, SIFT Logic, spamhaus, uscourtsgov, web-shield

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 23:35:40 +0000

The sextortion email scam last month that invoked a real password used by each recipient and threatened to release embarrassing Webcam videos almost certainly was not the work of one criminal or even one group of criminals. Rather, it’s likely that additional spammers and scammers piled on with their own versions of the phishing email after noticing that some recipients were actually paying up. The truth is we may never find out who’s responsible, but it’s still fun to follow some promising early leads and see where they take us.