Hello, welcome to the Tuesday, August 6, 2019 edition of the Sands and at Storm Center's

Stormcast. My name is Johannes Ulrich, and I'm recording from Jacksonville, Florida.

Over the last year or so, we have seen a number of these extortion attempts, essentially

emails that claim that they have some compromising

material about you and they're asking for a payment in Bitcoin. Now, thanks to all the readers

who forwarded us these attempts, Rick Wanner did collect these emails and the Bitcoin addresses and then looked at how the money

from these addresses moved across the blockchain.

He was able to identify five different Bitcoin addresses that were used to collect the bulk

of the bitcoins that we have seen being submitted to any of the addresses so far.

And looks like the total bitcoins earned is in the 6.2 million Bitcoin range, which according to today's price, is about $68 billion US dollars.

Now, they are very focused in one particular Bitcoin address, possible that this is some

kind of mixing service or something like.

The next one is owning 71 million US dollars worth of Bitcoin.

Still not bad for the little bit of work that you have to do in order to create these

type of campaigns.

So overall these shows these campaigns are very successful, even though I think they have sort of run their game too long now, and I hope people have finally learned not to pay them.

And at least I appear to be seeing less and less of these emails, maybe also spam filters have gotten a little bit better in hiding them.

And VMware released an update for VMware ESXI and for the desktop products, workstation

and fusion.

There are two vulnerabilities being patched here with CVSS range of 6.3 to 8.5, which puts this

in the, well, you probably want to patch it category, but certainly not in the patch now one.

Now the two vulnerabilities are video driver specific. The first one is only

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