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Earlier in April, a new sextortion scam campaign was detected making the rounds in countries on both sides of the Atlantic. The campaign is not altogether new, since it repurposes old scams. However frightening this may seem at first glance, these are just social engineering and scare tactics, employed by cybercriminals to generate panic in the recipients of these emails. To put it simply, it is highly unlikely that your computer has either been accessed or compromised, at least not by the method suggested in the email, so there is no need to panic. The new extortion campaign borrows, or rather builds upon, the previous versions. Once the cybercriminals have scared their potential victims enough, they demand a sum to be paid within 24 hours or the embarrassing video will be released.

The missive threatens to release the video to all your contacts unless you pay a Bitcoin ransom. The new twist? The basic elements of this sextortion scam email have been around for some time, and usually the only thing that changes with this particular message is the Bitcoin address that frightened targets can use to pay the amount demanded. But this one begins with an unusual opening salvo:. While you were watching the video, your web browser acted as a RDP Remote Desktop and a keylogger which provided me access to your display screen and webcam. Right after that, my software gathered all your contacts from your Messenger, Facebook account, and email account.

Subscriber Account active since. There's a new scam going around that would terrify most people if it ever landed in their inbox. The emails are slightly different depending on who's being attacked, but they all have a few similar features:.

The FTC uses the information it gets from people who report scams to keep close watch on trends, so we can alert you to changes. The emails say they hacked into your computer and recorded you visiting adult websites. They threaten to distribute the video to your friends and family within hours, unless you pay into their Bitcoin account.