{"id":"tp-3889","type":"article-newspaper","title":"Crypto sextortionists are renting out bots to scare, scam people out of their Bitcoins, study finds","author":"J Russ Isberto","publisher":"TOKENPOST Inc.","url":"https://www.tokenpost.com/news/insights/3889","datePublished":"2019-10-24T04:15:46.000Z","dateModified":"2019-10-24T04:16:05.000Z","language":"en","abstract":"A paper looking into the growing influence of crypto sextortionists found that botnets are being rented by criminals to scare people to give up their Bitcoins.","section":"Insights & Views","references":[{"title":"crimes related to this technology","url":"https://www.econotimes.com/11-Billion-Stolen-By-Crypto-Related-Crimes-In-The-First-Quarter-Of-2018-Alone-1358288"},{"title":"CoinDesk reported","url":"https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-extortion-on-the-rise-says-academic-study"},{"title":"would ask for $745","url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.01051.pdf"},{"title":"by a single entity","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01051"},{"title":"TokenPost","url":"https://www.tokenpost.com"}]}