A decade-old botnet is using infected computers to send out sextortion emails, in a wide-scale campaign with the potential to reach millions of victims. The botnet, Phorpiex, has been active for almost a decade and currently controls almost 500,000 computers globally. Botnet is known for distributing malware such as GandCrab as well as cryptocurrency miners on infected hosts. Researchers say that the botnet s spam campaign can affect up to 27 million potential victims.
Source: https://threatpost.com/phorpiex-botnet-shifts-ransomware-sextortion/149295/