Summary: A recent report reveals that there has been a 178% surge in sextortion scams via email in the past year, making it one of the top email threats. These unsolicited emails claim to have compromising images or videos of the victim taken via their webcam and threaten to share them if a ransom is not paid. Security researchers have traced some of these scams back to a single actor, who demands £1000 in bitcoin. Sextortion can also involve the use of deepfake technology to create explicit content featuring the victim's face, increasing the severity of the fraud. The FBI has issued an alert about this threat, highlighting that it is difficult to remove manipulated content once posted online.

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