![]() ![]() ![]() In March, the FBI released a warning about the hijacking of Zoom and other video conferencing services. “Zoombombing”, involving Zoom conferences being invaded by uninvited users was a particular issue in the early days of COVID-19 lockdown. As the Zoom app increased in use, security was quickly identified as a major area for concern. However, the fact such a famous person was captured ‘on camera’ in a compromising position, has permitted fraudsters to use the incident as added pressure in sextortion email campaigns.Įmail is again the central vector in the Zoom sextortion campaign, demonstrating the need for email spam filtering. Whilst Toobin was not specifically a victim of sextortion, in this instance. Toobin was caught in a compromising position on a Zoom video conference with other media workers. #JEFFREY TOOBIN ZOOM VIDEO PORN TV#This most recent sextortion campaign, ‘Zoom sextortion’, has been connected to an incident that included TV analyst Jeffrey Toobin. The threat continues that if the victim does not meet the ransom demand (usually in bitcoin) within a given time period, the compromising video will be shared to the user’s contact list.Īn example of a sextortion email (received recently) is displayed here:Īs always, hackers are talented at spotting an opportunity, and as Zoom has become a major part of our daily lives, so cybercriminals have perfected their sextortion tactics to the video conferencing platform. The hacker explains in the sextortion email that the video was recorded by malware downloaded on the user’s device. The sextortion emails normally include a threat to make public sexually explicit material, usually as a video. Hackers love successful scams, so they continue to come up with new campaigns based on a successful theme. A recent report released by Sophos discovered that millions of sextortion emails were broadcast in 2019-2020 earning the fraudsters behind the emails over $500,000. Sextortion, also called ‘porn scams’ is not new to cybersecurity threats. Sextortion has become a new vector of attack for hackers to steal money from unsuspecting individuals. This comfort zone has results in a new way for hackers to target staff and companies through of Zoom sextortion scams. This new working routine means that some remote workers take a more haphazard attitude towards cybersecurity and what they do in front of their laptop cameras. ![]() One of the main business successes of the Covid-19 pandemis is the Zoom video conferencing app, which registered over 300 million new users by the end of April thanks to the requirements of remote workers and long distance communications. ![]()
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