{"id":11278,"date":"2020-06-19T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/sextortion-may-be-evolving-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2020-06-19T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T13:51:00","slug":"sextortion-may-be-evolving-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sextortion-may-be-evolving-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"#Sextortion may be evolving during the coronavirus pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Sextortion may be evolving during the coronavirus pandemic<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n By Brooke Crothers, Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

June 19, 2020 |<\/span> 9:51am <\/p>\n

\n Sextortion is evolving into nastier ways to try to extort people.<\/p>\n

To date, the basic template for this cybercrime has been to claim people\u2019s accounts have been hacked, with the criminals saying they have video proof \u2013 usually via webcam \u2013 of a person watching sexual content. The criminals demand immedia<\/a>te payment in Bitcoin \u2013 which gives the extortionist anonymity \u2013 or they will release the video to the public.<\/p>\n

But this has taken a new twist, according to a blog post from ISC, a cybersecurity analysis site. The new tactic is for criminals to create fake accounts on dating websites pretending to be young women looking for new partners, Xavier Mertens, Senior ISC Handler, wrote in the post, citing an example on a Ukrainian forum.<\/p>\n

Once the extortionists get a response, they attempt to extract personal information from the victim including name, mobile phone, location and sexual preferences.<\/p>\n

Personal details, sometimes lurid, are published on the forum along with conversations and pictures, Mertens said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe big difference is\u2026that details captured and published by the bad guys are real and not a simple old password extracted from a database dump a few years ago,\u201d Mertens told Fox News via email.<\/p>\n

To be unlisted, they have to register on the forum and pay money, according to Mertens. But that may not be the end of the problem for the victim.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem is that, even if the victim pays, the forum is indexed by Google and other search engines\u2026This makes the process to be unlisted very difficult, if not impossible!\u201d Mertens wrote.<\/p>\n

The FBI\u2019s Internet Crime Complaint Center said it has seen an increase in reports of online extortion scams with more people staying at home during the COVID-19 pandemic and using their personal computer more.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the height of COVID-19\u2026we saw a dramatic shift to capitalize on the fear and uncertainty of the pandemic,\u201d Fahim Abbasi, Senior Security Researcher at Trustwave, an information security company, told Fox News.<\/p>\n

\u201cSextortion continues to work because it plays off of realistic fears consumers have about online privacy and anonymity,\u201d Abbasi added, noting that criminals can collect thousands of dollars in easy money this way.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is quite possible that the next big iteration will come in the form of deepfake technology<\/a> where a victim\u2019s face (taken from social media photos\/video) is superimposed onto real acts taking place,\u201d Abbasi explained. \u201cWe are not there yet \u2013 good deep fakes take a lot of time and effort, but the technology is rapidly evolving.\u201d<\/p>\n

Extortionists can trick victims into believing that they have the goods on them by revealing a victim\u2019s credentials \u2013 such as usernames, passwords, and addresses \u2013 that have been exposed in the massive global data breaches over the past several years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe good news for recipients of these messages is that these are fictions, and the risk comes from responding or reacting, not from someone who supposedly accessed your webcam, microphone, or machine,\u201d Kevin O\u2019Brien, CEO & Co-Founder of cloud email security provider, GreatHorn, told Fox News.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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