extortion

An ex-ransomware negotiator is under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice for allegedly working with ransomware gangs to profit from extortion payment deals. The suspect is a former employee …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Florida-based former snitch for the DEA has been charged with extorting major cocaine traffickers from overseas, according to federal court documents. …

Automotive giant Scania confirmed it suffered a cybersecurity incident where threat actors used compromised credentials to breach its Financial Services systems and steal insurance claim documents. Scania told BleepingComputer that …

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday disclosed that ransomware actors are targeting unpatched SimpleHelp Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) instances to compromise customers of an unnamed …

The management of Air Peace has refuted allegations of extorting passengers at the airport, which Adams Oshiomhole, a Nigerian senator, made. These claims arose following the denial of boarding to …

The Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, Ikioye Orutugu, has ordered the detention of three police inspectors for allegedly extorting a man. The police spokesperson in Anambra State, Tochukwu Ikenga, …

Two members of a group of cybercriminals named ViLE were sentenced this week for hacking into a federal law enforcement web portal in an extortion scheme. According to court documents, …

The FBI warned that an extortion gang known as the Silent Ransom Group has been targeting U.S. law firms over the last two years in callback phishing and social engineering …

A 19-year-old college student from Worcester, Massachusetts, has agreed to plead guilty to a massive cyberattack on PowerSchool that extorted millions of dollars in exchange for not leaking the personal data …

Instances of such personnel accessing data without business need were independently detected by the Company’s security monitoring in the previous months, Coinbase said, adding that all such instances were part …