Four Delaware men charged in international sextortion scheme that netted nearly $2 million
The group, along with others, targeted thousands of victims across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, prosecutors allege.
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Protecting teens against sextortion; threats to election workers
Heather Barnhart, SANS Institute fellow and digital forensics expert
FBI warns of ‘large increase’ in sextortion attacks, with $8 million in reported losses in 2021
The FBI bulletin confirms what many cybercrime researchers may have already feared: Sextortion scams are prevalent, and profitable.
These scammers claim to have videos of your most private moments
The threat intelligence company Digital Shadows examined 790,000 "sextortion" attempts sent to 89,000 email recipients to find that digital con artists typically build their bogus stories on…