Cybercriminals appear to have an infinite repertoire of strategies at their disposal when it comes to forcefully extracting financial information from victims. They prefer specific methods over others, and extortion is one of them.
Keep in mind that blackmailers will not just use one trick, but will use various types of extortion to force their victims to do their bidding, whether it is paying them a significant sum of money or performing tasks on their behalf.
Hack and extort
The term is rather self-explanatory, but to be sure, the extortionist will access your device or online accounts, search your files for any sensitive or valuable data, and steal it. Although it may resemble ransomware in some ways, the breaking and entering of your system is done manually, and the cybercriminal has to dedicate time and resources in doing so.
Unless your password was compromised in a large-scale data breach, in which case the job required is negligible. The successfully targeted ind
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