A new malicious spam is making the rounds, and it might scare a few people into falling for this. This form of ‘blackmail’ spam, pretends that some how they hacked your computer or home TV and watched you through your camera, recording everything you did.

And they pretend that they caught you masturbating to a porn site, playing on people’s fears, and threaten to share the videos with all your friends, family and contacts unless you pay a ransom.

With 95% of men admitting to masturbating (interesting stats at Masturbation Statistics (StatisticBrain) for those who care) there is a pretty good chance that some people who receive this email will fall for it.

Now luckily, most of this type of ‘blackmail’ spam is coming from well known hosting companies, which do little to stop this, and are well known for other types of spam and scams, so most spam protection already stops the bulk of it, but just in case someone sees it in their inbox or spam folder, this scam seems like it needed someone to mention it, and warn those people it is a scam, and not to worry.

The lastest copy we say came from Reg.Ru Hosting, a well known haven for other spam attacks, either using cheap throwaway domains, or a range of randomly created five letter russian domain names.. Canadian ‘pharma’ spam.. (you know those ads about cheap blue pills)

Received: from vipmining.com (HELO vipmining.com) (194.58.59.136)
inetnum:        194.58.58.0 - 194.58.59.255
netname:        REG-RU
descr:          Reg.Ru Hosting
org:            ORG-nrRL1-RIPE
remarks:        User support: support@reg.ru
remarks:        SPAM reports: abuse@reg.ru
country:        RU

What you might see in the warning..

Goоd dаy.
Dо not mind on my illiteraсy, I am frоm Japan.
 
I uploаded the maliсiоus рrogrаm оn yоur system.
 
Sincе that mоmеnt I pilfered all privy backgrоund from your system. Additionally I havе sоmе more сomprоmising evidеnce. The most intеrеsting еvidenсe that I stоlе- its а videоtарe with yоur masturbatiоn. I аdjustеd virus on а рorn web site and after you lоаdеd it. Whеn yоu decidеd with the video аnd tapрed оn a play buttоn, my deleteriоus sоft аt oncе sеt uр оn yоur system. Аfter аdjusting, your cаmеra shoot the vidеоtape with you self-аbusing, in addition it sаvеd preсisеly thе роrn vidео you mаsturbatеd оn. In next fеw dаys my mаlwаre cоlleсted all yоur sоciаl and wоrk contacts.
 
If you wish to erase the videotape- send me 250 euro in BTC(cryptocurrency).
I provide you my Btc address -   1FUNdZ3FfiDxbnMm5JAWhz6QxQKGcyeUx1
You have 12 h. to go from this moment. As soon as I see transfer I will eliminate the video in perpetuity. Other way I will send the tape to all your friends. 

An exercise for others in the malware community, you might want to look at that bitcoin address, and see if people are actually paying this type of ransom. And the sender does try to ‘obfuscate’ the actual content to fool content filters..

And for those that are REALLY worried about this type of activity, a ‘bandaid’ over the cameras on your computer and smart devices might be in order, at least in your bedrooms and bathrooms.