The ransomware gang is threatening to auction celebrities’ legal documents stolen from the law firm it paralyzed in May.
Tag Archives: blackmail
Adult live-streaming site CAM4 leaks millions of emails, private chats
The leak exposed millions of records with full names, emails, user conversations, payment logs, and IP addresses dating back to March.
Sextortion emails and porn scams are back – don’t let them scare you!
There is no video and the whole thing is a scam to prey on your fears.
Hacker asking $300 for 250,000 records stolen from sex worker site
In spite of prostitution being legal in the Netherlands, this could lead to the same type of blackmail attempts/suicide from Ashley Madison.
Blackmailed for Bitcoin – exchange rebuffs $3.5m ransom demand
Here’s a story of super-sized digital blackmail aimed at one of the biggest cryptocoin exchanges out there.
Sextortion mail from yourself? It doesn’t mean you’ve been hacked…
Here’s a 30-second video you can show your friends and family if they freak out after receiving a scam email apparently from themselves…
Sextortion – what’s new, and what to do [VIDEO]
Share this video with your less tech-savvy friends and family to set their minds at rest about sextortion.
Encrypted email provider ProtonMail caves in to extortion, hands over $6000
Having handed over $6000 to DDoS blackmailers, ProtonMail’s website is still unavailable following attacks with “an unprecedented level of sophistication.”
Stingray-like phone spying machine used to blackmail and rig state tenders
A South African official is suspected of forging a document to allow a businessman to illegally/allegedly buy the pricey device.
Ransomware – should you pay?
The big question, usually left unanswered in technical discussions of ransomware, is, “Should you pay?” We help you make up your mind.