Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Free Stealerium Malware Grabs Desktop and Webcam Images When NSFW Content DetectedBlackmailers have long spammed internet users, claiming to have captured images of them accessing adult content. Lately, these sextortion criminals have a new trick up their sleeve: the real thing, thanks to information-stealing malware with a NSFW content trigger to grab webcam and desktop images.

An old but persistent email scam known as "sextortion" has a new personalized touch: The missives, which claim that malware has captured webcam footage of recipients pleasuring themselves, now include a photo of the target's home in a bid to make threats about publishing the videos more frightening and convincing.

Attackers are sending email blasts with malware links in embedded PDFs as a way to evade email filters, lying about having fictional "video evidence."

A new version of the MyloBot malware has been observed to deploy malicious payloads that are being used to send sextortion emails demanding victims to pay $2,732 in digital currency