Not only us, but also our cooperation partner Watchlist-Internet is now reporting on it! Companies receive a blackmail email claiming to come from their own address. In it, criminals claim that they have access to someone else's computer and have masturbation videos of the recipients. Victims should pay Bitcoins so that there is no publication. The content of the message is fictional. No payment is required.
Authorities, self-employed people, companies or associations apparently receive an email from their own email address with the subject “It’s about your safety”. It says criminals have installed RAT software on their device and have masturbation videos of victims. Companies should pay the perpetrators Bitcoins so that the film files are not published:
Sender: eigen@emailadresse.at
Subject: It's about your safety.Hello, dear domain user.
We have installed RAT software on your device.
At this time your email account is hacked (see , now I have access to your accounts).
I have downloaded all confidential information from your system and I have received further evidence.
The most interesting things I've discovered are videos of you masturbating.I posted my virus on the porn site and then they installed it on your operating system.
When you clicked the play button on porn video, at that moment my Trojan was downloaded to your device. Once installed, your front camera will record a video every time you masturbate; In addition, the software is synchronized with the video you have selected.Currently, the software has collected all your contact information from social networks and email addresses.
If you need to delete all data collected from your system, send me $300 in BTC (cryptocurrency).
This is my Bitcoin Wallet: 1KxCvtggcPd7c9UtUxYkJW2AwCQMknJkth
You have 2 days after reading this letter.After your transaction I will delete all your data.
Otherwise I will send video with your pranks to all your colleagues and friends!!!And from now on, be more careful!
Please only visit safe websites!
Bye!
How should you respond to the email?
It's best if you move the blackmail message to your spam/junk folder, because its contents are fictional: your computer is not infected with malware and there are no masturbation videos of you. Moving the email to the spam/junk folder will ensure that you no longer find similar messages in your regular inbox in the future.
How do you recognize the blackmail email?
The blackmail letter is fabricated and dubious. You can see this from the following points, among others:
- The content of the message is incorrect because, for example, strangers do not have a monitoring program installed on your computer. You can find out by checking for malware with an up-to-date antivirus program. It will not find any threat of this kind.
- The letter is impersonal: “Hello, dear domain user”. This shows you that this is a standardized message that is sent to a large group of recipients. This is another indication that the message content may not be correct.
- The email doesn't go into any details. For example, it does not name a specific video that you supposedly watched. This means there is no reason for you to worry.
Why is the email from your own address?
The criminal senders of the message use an entry in their email to fake a different sender address than is actually the case. To do this, they manipulate the code of their message and take advantage of the fact that the protocol for sending emails does not check whether the specified sender address matches the actual one. For this reason, this circumstance does not have to bother you.
Source: Watchlist Internet
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