Well, here’s a new twist on an old problem. While ransomware continues to haunt hospitals and beyond, a gentleman in Australia has reportedly been victimized in a far more personal manner. Hackers emailed him a video, taken from his webcam, mid self-coitus. They asked him for $10,000, lest they release the footage to the man’s Facebook friends.
Technically this isn’t “ransomware” the way we typically think of it, which locks down computers and/or networks and demands money for the key. But since “blackmailware” hasn’t been coined yet, it’ll have to fall under that umbrella.
Source: Wired