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Researchers from Cofense have observed a new version of the sextortion scam campaign that uses alternative cryptocurrencies in order to bypass email protection.
Previous evasion techniques
More details about this new campaign
Researchers noted that this latest sextortion version is using a Litecoin wallet address instead of bitcoin to evade detection.
“As this latest twist shows, threat actors can switch to the next crypto currency and attempt to iterate through all the scam’s previous versions. While there are thousands of crypto currencies, only a dozen or so are easily attainable from large exchanges. For the scam to work, the recipient needs an easy way to acquire the requested payment method,” researchers noted.
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