Bitcoin Bomb Fright Connected with Sextortion Swindlers

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The recent ‘bomb threat’ spam campaign seems to be a subsidiary action to another disgraceful email blackmail effort. Organisations and institutions such as universities, news outlet, schools, businesses across the globe are facing fake bomb threats.

Various researchers with Cisco’s Talos reveal that the influx of emails floated on December 14 asking that receivers pay a Bitcoin (BTC) ransom or else they face a bomb attack on their respective offices of work, is just a growth of the fright-tactic blackmail scam that surfaced in October 2018.   

In the scam, the illicit sender copied several passwords from a for-sale item of stolen credentials and then mailed them to a particular target group saying that it had installed malware in their PCs. These victims were demanded to send money or else face compromising videos anonymously leaked. However, the videos were not existing in reality and even the malware was nowhere to be seen.   

Read the details in the article of Coinidol dot com, the world blockchain news outlet: https://coinidol.com/bitcoin-bomb-fright-connected-with-sextortion-swindlers/