Surge in blackmailing?, (Wed, Mar 21st)

What’s happening with blackmails? For those who don’t know the word, it is a piece of mail sent to a victim to ask money in return for not revealing compromising information about him/her. For a few days, we noticed a peak of such malicious emails. One of our readers reported one during the weekend, Johannes Ullrich received also one. A campaign targeted people in The Netherlands. 

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