05-09-2024 17:08 via mashable.com

Scammers are using pictures of your home to amplify sextortion threats

As the tech landscape evolves, and the public's awareness of digital attacks grows, scammers are harnessing every tool at their disposal — including Google Maps.A new sextortion scam (a form of financial coercion in which bad actors threaten to release personal, explicit images to the public) leverages publicly accessible geomapping data (read: images of your home) to make the threat even more serious.SEE ALSO:How Big Tech is approaching explicit, nonconsensual deepfakes
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