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Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Thursday 12 July 2018
It seems the cryptocurrency community is under threat of widespread crypto-blackmail, so take caution. Cornell University computer science professor Emin Gün Sirer has shared an email that appears to leverage leaked passwords to swindle Bitcoin out of unsuspecting victims, demanding they pay a ransom. After weaving an obviously fake, but plausible, scenario describing the Mr Robot-esque ability to record your screen and webcam output during some, uh, private meditation – the email threatens to send recordings of you getting down with ya big bad self to friends and family. Here's a new form of cryptoblackmail. A friend received this out…
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