FBI IC3 (Internet Crime Complaint Center) reported a 242% rise in extortion emails, the majority of which are sextortions The majority of these emails demand payment for sexual video and private data related to the recipient. Check Point Research has exposed a botnet that uses many thousands of infected computers to deliver millions of such threats to innocent recipients. The Phorpiex (aka Trik) botnet has been active for almost a decade and currently operates more than 500,000 infected hosts.”]
Source: https://research.checkpoint.com/2019/in-the-footsteps-of-a-sextortion-campaign/