A sextortion scam variant is going around that states the popular adult site Xvideos.com was hacked to include malicious script that records a visitor through their webcam and sends it to the hacker. The scam emails also states that this script was able to connect back to the visitors computer to steal their data and contacts. Like previous variants, this scam email includes a user’s old password obtained from data breaches and threatens to send videos of the recipients in compromising activities unless they send the attackers a bitcoin payment of $969.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sextortion-scam-stating-xvideos-was-hacked-to-record-you-through-webcam/