A decade-old botnet malware that controls over 450,000 computers worldwide has been updated to include a spam bot designed to use compromised computers as proxies to send out over 30,000 sextortion emails per hour. The same botnet has also been named as ” Save Yourself ” malware attacks by other teams of researchers. In over five months, cybercriminals behind this campaign have made more than 11 BTC, equivalent to approximately $88,000. Each individual spam campaign can cover up to 27 million potential victims.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2019/10/phorpiex-botnet-sextortion-emails.html