‘Save Yourself’ sextortion campaign targets 27 million victims in their inboxes

‘Save Yourself’ sextortion campaign targets 27 million victims in their inboxes
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2019-10-16 16:00

A well-established botnet and malware agent is now engaged in a new large-scale sextortion campaign by acting as a spambot to target innocent recipients. According to Check Point Research, the creators of the Phorpiex (aka Trik) botnet added this revenue generation ability to trick victims into transferring more than 11BTC (~$89,370) to the threat actors’ wallets over the course of five months.

First documented in 2016, the Phorpiex botnet has been exploited by multiple threat actors to distribute malicious payloads. The botnet — which currently operates over 450,000 infected hosts — has been a distributor for all kinds of malware,…

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