"'Dirty Little Secret' Extortion Email Threatens to Give Your Family Coronavirus"
Researchers have discovered an extortion email where adversaries are sending threatening emails to people demanding 4,000 dollars. In the email, the adversaries say that if the money is not sent to them, then they will infect the individual's entire family with the coronavirus. The adversaries use lookalike Greek characters in place of some English letters such as A, N, T, O, and V to disguise the words from simple text matching. As with many extortion emails, the "proof" that they really can see deep into your online life is usually an old password of the individual that they have retrieved from publicly available data, which was leaked in an old data breach. If one receives this email, do not send the adversaries money, do not reply to it, and make sure to let others know about this scam.