Hello, Pervert! - Sextortion scams and Discord disasters
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Don't get duped, doxxed, or drained! In this episode of "Smashing Security" we dive into the creepy world of sextortion scams, and investigate how crypto wallet firm Ledger's Discord server was hijacked in an attempt to phish for cryptocurrency recovery phrases.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.
Plus! Don't miss our featured interview with Drata's Matt Hillary.
Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.
Episode links:
- Ledger secures Discord after hacker bot tried to steal seed phrases - CoinTelegraph.
- Binance Founder CZ Warns: Ledger Discord Hack Targets Recovery Phrases - CoinPedia.
- Ledger confirms physical scam letters requesting seed phrase in fake security upgrade - The Block.
- Physical addresses of 270K Ledger owners leaked on hacker forum - Bleeping Computer.
- Criminals are mailing altered Ledger devices to steal cryptocurrency - Bleeping Computer.
- New Hello Pervert Email Attack Warning — ‘I Know Where You Live’ - Forbes.
- ‘Hello pervert’: the sextortion scam claiming to have videoed you - The Guardian.
- "Hello Pervert" Email Is A Total Scam - What You Need To Know - Malware Tips.
- Scam email sent from my own email address - Microsoft Community.
- Thunderbolts* review: 'The greatest Marvel offering in years' - BBC.
- Limelight, Exemplar - BBC Radio 4.
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| 0:00.0 | You create a 12-word seed phrase, right? You obviously store that very securely or you write it in the back of a book. |
| 0:11.2 | Tattoo it on your ass. |
| 0:12.6 | Depends how visible your asses. |
| 0:14.5 | So now I have two things. I definitely absolutely cannot lose for love or money. |
| 0:20.3 | Okay. |
| 0:21.0 | You can't lose your ass, but potentially someone could read the seed phrase on it. |
| 0:24.9 | I wouldn't recommend putting it there. |
| 0:26.4 | Big pants. |
| 0:27.1 | Big pants. |
| 0:27.8 | Smashing Security, episode 417. |
| 0:41.2 | Hello Pervert. |
| 0:42.5 | Sex tors shuns scams and Discord disasters, with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. |
| 0:48.2 | Hello, hello, and welcome to Smashing Security episode 417. |
| 0:51.7 | My name's Graham Cluelly. |
| 0:53.0 | And I'm Carol. |
| 0:56.0 | What's coming up on the show this week, |
| 1:01.8 | Carol? Before we kick off, let's first thank this week's wonderful sponsors, Drata, Dashlane, |
| 1:07.2 | and Vanta. It's their support that help us give you this show for free. Now, coming up on today's show, |
| 1:11.3 | Graham, what do you got? I've identified a little bit of discord in the world of cryptocurrency. CalSaprize, and I look into the hello pervert scam. Plus, I have a chat with |
| 1:19.1 | Matt Hillary, a CISO at Drata, and we talk specifically about GRC. That's governance, risk, and |
| 1:27.1 | compliance. |
| 1:28.0 | All this and much more coming up on this episode of Smasher Security. |
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