Bitcoin sextortionists target Google Nest cameras in latest campaign
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Bitcoin sextortionists target Google Nest cameras in latest campaign
Bitcoin-hungry criminals are targeting owners of Google Nest home security cameras in their latest sextortion campaign, Computer Weekly reports.
Email cybersecurity company Mimecast says the campaign mostly targeted individuals in the US earlier this month.
Kiri Addison, Mimecasts's head of data science overwatch, said this particular campaign was unusual in that criminals were using a more complex methodology to hide the origins of the scam emails in hope of concealing their identity even further.
As is often the case in these types of campaigns, criminals claim to have footage of the victim and threat to release it unless a ransom, typically in Bitcoin, is paid.
[Read: Amazon Ring owners foil $400K Bitcoin extortion plot by removing batteries]
What makes this particular campaign stand out, though, is that criminals typically share a Bitcoin wallet address with the victim in their original email but that's currently not the case. Instead, the criminals simply tell the victim they have the footage.
The hackers then give the victims a pas