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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Multiple companies in the U.S. and Canada experienced a record number of cyber extortion events in 2023 and unprecedented demands, a new report from Marsh shows. The report, Ransomware: A persistent ...

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 ...

A recurring question in coverage disputes is whether a sub-limit expands coverage by creating a new, defined grant, or instead operates to restrict coverage that would otherwise be available under the ...

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 ...

Dhubri Police arrested three men accused of extorting women with fake profiles and AI-generated obscene images. Investigators ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Waxhaw passes data center moratorium A federal jury convicted a Charlotte man on Wednesday for carrying out a cyber extortion ...

"It is said that the law is always at least several years behind the technology. With respect to the application of a criminal statute the doctrine of lenity, among other established rules, acts as ...