First sextortion, now bombstortion? Today we have received a couple of reports of a new email based extortion message being delivered to email boxes. In clumsy English, the message threatens that a bomb has been planted in your building, and if you don't pay $20000 in bitcoin, by the end of the day the bomb will be exploded. This threat has caused a great deal of excitement, leading to lockdowns and evacuations in numerous cities in North America. Sample email looks like: --- --- Other versions have shown the explosive as "Hexogen". If anyone is willing to share email headers and/or BTC addresses from these messages I would appreciate it. Please send to rwanner(at)isc.sans.edu. If you could also include your location country, that could be interesting information. So far the bitcoin addresses I have seen show no payments. This campaign is receiving a lot of interest from mainstream press as well. Brian Krebs has also posted. US-CERT/NCCIC - has provided guidance on what you should do if you receive one of the bomb extortion emails.
Note: Sorry, I misread the original message and stated the ransom was 20000 BTC, when in fact it is $20000 in BTC. -- Rick Wanner MSISE - rwanner at isc dot sans dot edu - http://namedeplume.blogspot.com/ - Twitter:namedeplume (Protected) |
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Dec 14th 2018 2 years ago |
Isn't the ransom $20,000 or currently 6.12 bitcoin?
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jono 10 Posts |
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Dec 14th 2018 2 years ago |
Yes. You are absolutely correct. That is what I get for posting a quick diary when I should have been asleep. Corrected. Thanks for the heads-up.
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