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While most of us are preparing the switch to a new year (If it’s already the case for you: Happy New Year!), Attackers never stop and implement always new tricks to defeat our security controls. For a long time now, we have been flooded by sextortion emails. This is a kind of blackmail where someone threatens to share explicit images or videos unless the victim meets their demands. Even today, I receive regularly some of them.