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The Many Faces of Necurs: How the Botnet Spewed Millions of Spam Emails for Cyber Extortion

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Sex extortion emails now quoting part of their victim’s phone number

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Some computer users are reporting that they have received a new type of extortion email in their inbox, which – in an attempt to scare them into giving in to demands for money – quotes part of their phone number.

But where are the blackmailers getting the phone number from?

Graham Cluley

Rex Mundi hacking extortion gang busted by Europol

Rex Mundi

There’s so much bad news about computer security that we sometimes forget to applaud when something good happens.

Let’s change that right now.

Graham Cluley