"You have 48 hours to complete this transaction": Did you receive such an email? You can relax • In recent days, many Israelis have received an email extortion notice in order to extort money from them. • This is what needs to be done.
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Imagine for a second you were transposed into the karmic driven world of Earl. This is what has happened to many Israelis in recent days.
"Did you notice I sent you an email from your account? "It means I have full access to your device, I can see you, turn on your camera and microphone and also access your contact list and all your correspondence," the message read. "You have two days (48 hours) to complete this transaction."
The security company ESET points out that this phenomenon is not new, and they are already familiar with this type of email, but it is a broad campaign that is now facing a lot of goals so that at least some of it will fall into the trap. Meanwhile, the cruel ultimatum caused some of the victims to transfer tens of thousands of shekels to the crooks under the assumption that they could shame them.
"It can be seen that the demand for payment has increased, if about two years ago the request was to receive about $ 300 in Bitcoin, today the hackers are already asking for a sum of $ 2,000," the security company ESET added. The message is not sent specifically to people who have watched porn or necessarily to people whose password has been hacked. But it is enough that there are some who will believe it and pay for the crooks to profit.
In addition, to strengthen the credibility of the fraudulent email, in previous waves of the attack a password of the attacker was attached and in the current wave the alleged email was sent from the victim's email address when the attacker allegedly accessed the email box and sent from it. Receiving the extortion e-mail from the personal e-mail address seems to bother a large part of the recipients, when in practice it is easy to forge the sender's address, and so it is in this case.
Did you receive this type of message? ESET recommends not answering or referring to it. "This is an email that is sent using a successful method and there is really no reason to worry, but in any case in order to be as secure as possible, the passwords for the various services can be exchanged, especially if the same password is reused for multiple accounts. If it's in leaked password repositories. "
