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Did you receive an extortion email? You are not alone and should not be stressed

"Did you see I sent an email from your account? That means I have full access to your device, I can see you." Many Israelis received this message by e-mail, and it is a message of sexual extortion that claims that the attacker has an intimate video. However, this is a successful method and it is recommended to delete the message

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Mikey Levy

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"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," read an email sent to Israelis in recent days. The criminals demand payment in Bitcoin and threaten that if the victims do not pay They will send to their contact list by email and social media a recording of the pornographic content they watched. If you received the email, you can relax and then delete it. Chances are slim to nil because the person who sent the email really has some information about you other than the email address.

The information security company ESET identifies a widespread fraudulent campaign in Israel and in the Hebrew language: Israeli victims received an email claiming that a Trojan virus had been implanted in their computer and the attackers documented the pornographic content they were watching. Later in the letter, the victim is threatened with the publication of the sexual content in which he viewed the computer in bulk to all his contacts by email and social networks if he does not transfer a sum of money in Bitcoin to the attackers' digital wallet.

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Did you receive this email? Just delete it (Photo: PR)

"In recent days, we have received dozens of inquiries from our customers who received a ransom letter in an email demanding payment for Bitcoin in exchange for not publishing incriminating information about the victim. You can see that the demand for payment increased, if about two years ago the request was about $ 300 in Bitcoin. $ 2000, "ESET reported." In

order 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 email was sent from the victim's email address, when the attacker allegedly accessed the email box and sent it. Extortion from the personal e-mail address bothers a considerable part of the recipients, when in practice the sender's address can easily be forged, and so in this case.

I received the email, what do you do?

The recommendation is not to reply to or comment on such messages. 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. It is possible and recommended to check if the email address is here to check if it is in the leaked password repositories.

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