The
Internet Security Office (OSI) has detected a campaign of fraudulent emails,
the objective of which is to extort money from victims to pay a certain amount
of money in bitcoins in exchange for not publishing alleged intimate
recordings. healthnutritionhints
Fraudulent
email is sent from a randomly generated email account. The subject with
which it is identified is 'I successfully hacked your XXX devices', where XXX
are random numbers, although it is not ruled out that there are other emails
with similar subjects.
The
body of the message is written in Spanish and, although there are no spelling
mistakes, the grammar and vocabulary are not those used by a native
speaker. In it, the victim is informed that their device has been infected
with spyware with which they have obtained alleged intimate
videos. Cybercriminals threaten to spread these videos to the email
recipient's contacts, unless they make a payment in bitcoins within 60 hours.
This deception is known as 'sextortion' and anyone could be a victim of it since, in
reality, multimedia content does not exist but is a pretext to cause concern to
the recipient and incite him to give in to economic blackmail.
For
this reason, the OSI recommends that anyone who has received an email of this
style not reply and delete it. «No one has had access to your devices, nor
has they recorded an intimate video. It is a deception that uses social
engineering strategies to make you follow the cybercriminal's instructions,
"he emphasizes.
Not
responding is important because if you do, even if you don't fall for the
payment trick, cybercriminals will know that the account is active and will
send new scams in the future. If the notice is late and the user has already
paid, it is necessary to collect all the evidence -screenshots, e-mails,
messages ...- and contact the State Security Forces and Bodies to file a
complaint.
This deception is known as 'sextortion' and anyone could be a victim of it since, in reality, multimedia content does not exist but is a pretext to cause concern to the recipient and incite him to give in to economic blackmail.
