Sextortion Scams Now Include Photos of Your Home
ID: 7c1d005a-b887-5375-bb58-50764049e711
STIX ID: report--7c1d005a-b887-5375-bb58-50764049e711
Feed Name: Krebs on Security
A sextortion email campaign is leveraging personalization—using recipients’ names and Google Maps images of their homes—while falsely claiming webcam compromise via “Pegasus” spyware and demanding nearly $2,000 in Bitcoin via a QR code within 24 hours; the report emphasizes this is a social-engineering scam without technical compromise evidence and relays FBI guidance to avoid engaging, not open unknown attachments, cover webcams, and report incidents to the FBI.
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