Tasmania’s Bitcoin Porn Scam Belies Global Ransomware Threat
Rural Tasmania has become the unlikely target of a porn scam, defrauding residents by making them pay for normally free antivirus software using Bitcoin. Non-crypto users pay for free software. Police on the island are currently investigating the origins of the operation, which comes in the form of a virus infecting user devices. The news comes against a backdrop of high-profile warnings about the proliferation of ransomware worldwide, particularly via social media and phishing emails. In the Tasmanian stunt, devices show a pornographic pop-up along with a message confirming “infection.”....
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