Sextortion Scam Stating Xvideos Was Hacked to Record You Through Webcam

[Porthos]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...deos-was-hacked-to-record-you-through-webcam/

The bitcoin address included in this email, 18z5c6TjLUosqPTEnm6q7Q2EVNgbCy16Td, has been reported being used in sextortion scams starting in early January 2019. At this time it has received 11 transactions for approximately .95 bitcoins. This equates to $3,260.52.

Bitcoin Payments to 18z5c6TjLUosqPTEnm6q7Q2EVNgbCy16Td
As these scams have been extremely profitable, with attackers earning as much as $50k in a week with little or not cost to spam them out, we should not expect to see them stop any time soon.

While these emails may appear real and scary enough to make you want to send a payment, it is important that recipients understand that this is a scam and you should just delete these emails if you receive them. Even worse, some of these sextortion scams include links or attachments to supposed samples of videos they made of you.

Do not open these attachments as they have installed other malware such as the GandCrab Ransomware and information stealing Trojans in the past.

 

[overburnz]

i received one of those some time ago, claiming to have videos and other information, like porn sites i allegedly visited, and demanded a fee to be paid in the next 48h or they would release that information to everyone... and almost everyday i receive some Apple Store purchase that was made with my account... and so on... the sad thing is that most people are not as well informed as we are and they fall for this type of thing....

 

[Porthos]

the sad thing is that most people are not as well informed as we are and they fall for this type of thing....

Things like this are a source of service calls.

 

[overburnz]

Things like this are a source of service calls.

don't get any of those... only work with Apple products now , but when i worked with windows i would service this type of issues from time to time

 

[Porthos]

only work with Apple products now

Apple users can still get and fall for these email scams. It is NOT windows specific. Apple users think they are bulletproof.

 

[overburnz]

Apple users can still get and fall for these email scams. It is NOT windows specific. Apple users think they are bulletproof.

you are absollutly right, but i just don't see it.... same thing with viruses, the Mac OS does not get nearly has infected as a windows machine... but it can still get 1 or 2

 

[nerd2u]

This is why I sell webcam covers for a couple bucks

Sent from my SM-G870W using Tapatalk

 

[overburnz]

This is why I sell webcam covers for a couple bucks

Sent from my SM-G870W using Tapatalk

i see them a lot these days... most of them are "user made" like duct tape and bandages LOL

 

[Porthos]

i see them a lot these days... most of them are "user made" like duct tape and bandages LOL

Most every laptop I service has the camera covered. Just installed a drive in one yesterday and the camera was covered.

 

[overburnz]

Most every laptop I service has the camera covered. Just installed a drive in one yesterday and the camera was covered.

yeah same here but then you go and see their browser history and i'll bet you a 100$ it's XXX sites, gambling online and torrents... i had one client that had a sticky note on his desktop with every username and password posted there for anyone to see...

 

[Moltuae]

The bitcoin address included in this email, 18z5c6TjLUosqPTEnm6q7Q2EVNgbCy16Td, has been reported being used in sextortion scams starting in early January 2019. At this time it has received 11 transactions for approximately .95 bitcoins. This equates to $3,260.52.

I suspect that's just one of many addresses they're using. There's a new transfer-out transaction for that address on the blockchain now:
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/18z5c6TjLUosqPTEnm6q7Q2EVNgbCy16Td

The transaction is for 1.49 BTC, meaning that there must be a number of input addresses. Here's the transaction:
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/158bb1f007aa189cd4484c00916bdce62357585c972e627d063aa4c43d154a59

The input addresses (which are likely to be from the same wallet):
14cxPepKjJ8XR5k4u7jskJiqMH2vGFV5WY
1EJcaYXy5AHuqPDSSSZ8rWiPXD5vsyfoAS
18z5c6TjLUosqPTEnm6q7Q2EVNgbCy16Td
1M3r1T2MnqRPJUgWoSZTgaTqpVQUNdkpeC
1EiJMyvw2NP6T6vyWQ81HgUfBUVT1mqZkM

Combined, those addresses have received close to 6 BTC and it's likely the perpetrator has more wallets/addresses.

 

[seedubya]

don't get any of those... only work with Apple products now , but when i worked with windows i would service this type of issues from time to time

I've had a number of mac users who've received emails of this exact type. I mean, it's not like who you get email from is OS dependent, is it?

 

[Sky-Knight]

I'm here just to laugh at the very idea that Macs get fewer "viruses".

Malware today is almost always trojans, delivered via social engineering methods. All platforms are vulnerable equally. A user running a program is a user running a program, and the website that delivers it does some platform detection to deliver targeted malware based on a single link. Worse, anti-virus technology on the Apple side isn't as well developed, and just like Android / iOS in many cases malware simply goes undetected for years.

Apple... crash differently.

 

[overburnz]

I've had a number of mac users who've received emails of this exact type. I mean, it's not like who you get email from is OS dependent, is it?

yes that is true, i also receive them (i have a windows laptop), but what i meant is that the mac os (in my experience) is most difficult to have that kind of problems.

 

[seashore]

what i meant is that the mac os (in my experience) is most difficult to have that kind of problems.

Just to be clear, are you saying it's more difficult to receive a sextortion email on a Mac than on a PC?

 

[overburnz]

Just to be clear, are you saying it's more difficult to receive a sextortion email on a Mac than on a PC?

No, I’m saying that windows machines are more easily infected by malware than Mac OS and/or linux

 

[Sky-Knight]

No, I’m saying that windows machines are more easily infected by malware than Mac OS and/or linux

And again modern trojans do not care about OS. This claim is demonstrably, laughably, false. All software is vulnerable, and there are no gradients of quality in any of the commonly used modern operating systems. Cell phones, game consoles, cameras... if it's on the network, it's at risk.

 

[overburnz]

And again modern trojans do not care about OS. This claim is demonstrably, laughably, false. All software is vulnerable, and there are no gradients of quality in any of the commonly used modern operating systems. Cell phones, game consoles, cameras... if it's on the network, it's at risk.

i am not saying otherwise, but AGAIN, in my experience i see more windows machines with problems like that, Mac OS and/or Linux machines it's a very small percentage...

 

[mraikes]

Just to be clear, are you saying it's more difficult to receive a sextortion email on a Mac than on a PC?

Absolutely. Mac guys get ALL the girls. They don't need to visit pron sites. Haven't you seen the commercials?

Could be a whole new marketing angle for Apple...

 

[Sky-Knight]

i am not saying otherwise, but AGAIN, in my experience i see more windows machines with problems like that, Mac OS and/or Linux machines it's a very small percentage...

Of course you see more Windows machines with problems, that's how statistics work! Linux + MacOS combined is less than 15% of the market, meanwhile Windows makes up pretty much the remaining 85%. Just based on that you're going to see 17 busted Windows boxes for every 3 Mac/Linux boxes. Not to mention the user bases of the latter group tend to be rather self supporting, so they're better about keeping stuff updated, and not clicking on dumb things. The reduction in infection rates has far more to do with user habits than anything else.

But when you do get an infected Mac... God help you.