Security experts from Cisco Talos have uncovered two recent sextortion scam campaigns that appear to leverage on the Necurs botnet infrastructure. The campaigns allowed crooks to earn a total of 23.3653711 bitcoins (roughly $146,380.31), the bitcoins were distributed across 58,611 unique bitcoin wallet addresses. The number of distinct email addresses targeted in the campaigns was 15,826, each recipient received on average a 15 sextort messages. The messages were transmitted from 137,606 unique IP addresses.”]
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