One of the largest car rental companies in Europe fell victim to a fabricated cyberattack. Why would adversaries claim a mock attack? To understand the real intentions and motivations behind such ...

Cameron Curry, 27, was found guilty of six counts of transmitting interstate communications with the intent to extort.

Cybercriminals are increasingly staging fake data breaches to launch extortion attempts against KYC-AML companies. Recently, hackers devised a new method of targeting a KYC company by running a ...

A new global report out this week captures trends in how cyber attacks evolved in 2023 and are likely to keep evolving throughout 2024. 2023 saw more threat actors target end-of-life products, ...

An unknown user going by the handle "Gitloker" is grabbing and wiping clean repositories on GitHub in an apparent effort to extort victims. The campaign, which a researcher at Chilean cybersecurity ...

Cyber extortion continues to proliferate with an unprecedented number of threat actors and a 77% year-on-year growth in cyber extortion victims, according to Orange Cyberdefense (OCD). In its ...

Officials say he worked as a contracted employee at the victim company for six months before the extortion plot.

Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, has been facing renewed extortion from cybercriminals just a month after paying a ransom to prevent the release of data stolen in a February 2024 ...

Cyber extortion can hit a company hard by disrupting operations, exposing sensitive data and shaking shareholder trust. Even a single attack can have costly, far-reaching consequences for business ...

Hackers are shifting from encryption to reputational pressure, as cybersecurity chiefs face burnout, wider AI mandates and mounting boardroom scrutiny, reveal Arctic Wolf and Splunk reports. The job ...

An octogenarian Catholic couple committed suicide following cyber scammers’ threats and intimidation to extort money, police in southern Indian Karnataka state said. Diego Santan Nazareth, 83, and his ...