Sextortion scams surge with personal data to extort money
New research from Barracuda reveals a rise in personalised sextortion attacks globally, whereby cybercriminals use victims' personal information to intensify blackmail pressures. Sextortion scams involve criminals demanding money by threatening to release explicit imagery alleged to be stolen from victims' devices.…
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