Neowin News Feed for: Blackmail

UK: Campaigners call for anonymity in revenge porn cases and better police training

Paul Hill — Sun, 19 May 2019 08:58:01 +0000

Campaigners and experts have made calls for victims of revenge porn to be given anonymity when they report a crime. Revenge porn cases also saw a 23% drop in charges in recent years. Read more...

Jeff Bezos exposes David Pecker's National Enquirer dick pic threats

Paul Hill — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 08:50:01 +0000

Jeff Bezos has revealed that American Media Inc, which owns the National Enquirer magazine, has threatened to reveal nude pictures of him. Bezos has said he won't bow to the blackmail. Read more...

Further details emerge on sextortion scam that uses your real passwords to deceive you

Hamza Jawad — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 19:36:02 +0000

More details regarding an ongoing sextortion scam have emerged, including reports that over $30,000 has been paid in ransom to the hackers by people who were scammed by this new form of ransomware. Read more...

This sextortion scam uses your real passwords to deceive you

Hamza Jawad — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:30:01 +0000

A new form of ransomware has emerged, with targeted users being threatened to provide money. Old passwords are used by the blackmailers as proof that their victim's online data is not private anymore. Read more...

UK: NPCC reports increase in webcam blackmail and four related suicides

Paul Hill — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 08:04:01 +0000

The UK's National Police Chiefs' Council has reported an increase in the number of those involved in webcam blackmail. It also said that there were four suicides related to so-called 'sextortion'. Read more...

Delilah malware utilizes webcams to blackmail victims into spilling company secrets

Justin Luna — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 09:24:01 +0000

A new piece of malware has been discovered, which secretly operates a victim's web camera, and steals information from them. It then blackmails victims into leaking company secrets. Read more...

Ashley Madison blackmailers now threatening users via US postal service

Justin Luna — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 17:16:01 +0000

After more than three months since the leak of Ashley Madison user data, blackmailers have started threatening hacked users again, this time by using a more personal approach. Read more...

Nokia was blackmailed many times over the years - and usually paid up

Andy Weir — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 09:58:49 +0000

A former Nokia executive says that the company has been blackmailed numerous times, and frequently paid up, while further details have emerged on the multi-million euro ransom it paid in 2008. Read more...

Nokia paid millions of euros to software blackmailers

Andy Weir — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:07:59 +0000

Nokia paid millions of euros to blackmailers in 2008 who threatened to publish the source code for its Symbian OS - but after it left the money in a parking lot, police lost track of the suspects. Read more...

NeoBytes :) "We're proud to introduce Google BlackMail"

Andy Weir — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 16:38:11 +0000

Behold: the parody video Microsoft probably wishes it could release as part of its 'Scroogled' campaign, introducing Google BlackMail: "Either sign up for Google+ or we release all your private info!" Read more...

Teen commits suicide after being blackmailed on Skype

Phi Ha — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 07:52:45 +0000

After he asked his Twitter followers to Skype him, Daniel Perry believed he was talking to a girl his age. Events took a wrong turn when they threatened to release the conversation unless he paid. Read more...

Man blackmailed after having a sex session on Skype

Christopher White — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 10:32:42 +0000

Never do anything on Skype that you wouldn't do in front of your parents. That's the lesson one Utah man learned the hard way after having a sex session on Skype. Read more...

New E-Mail Security Threat: Cyber Blackmail

Wed, 31 Dec 2003 01:26:29 +0000

Corporate and home PC users are receiving blackmail threats from Internet con artists who claim to have access to their PCs, security experts say. The blackmailers threaten to delete information or plant pornographic files on... Read more...