Cyber extortion, by contrast, now encompasses a much broader set of coercive tactics, including data theft and leak threats, ...

Find out the common types of cyber extortion, the impacts of these incidents, and how to respond and prevent them in the ...

A new report from Anthropic, a leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) company, highlights a troubling development in the cybersecurity landscape: threat actors are now using AI to automate nearly every ...

Despite high-profile attacks and publicity, advanced persistent threats continue to strike organizations in all sectors. How can security leaders improve defenses? ThreatTrack's Usman Choudhary offers ...

The global cyber environment is described as a "society wide crisis" driven by industrialized cybercrime and the fragmentation, or "balkanization," of cyberspace along geopolitical fault lines, which ...

"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 ...

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 ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Coveware by Veeam ®, the leading authority in ransomware response and cyber extortion trends, today unveiled its Q2 2025 ransomware report, spotlighting a dramatic escalation ...

The Australian Airline Qantas said on Sunday that the personal data of its customers had leaked online after being stolen in a cyberattack. The airline said that the data of 5.7 million customers had ...

A majority of European organizations are under the potential threat of cyber extortion, and many are placing blame on their internet service providers (ISP), according to a survey of 100 security ...

As data theft extortion surges and vendor risk grows, Canadian boards, brokers and risk managers face rising professional exposure if cyber programs lag behind the threat ...

Authorities have unsealed a major criminal complaint charging Thalha Jubair, a 19-year-old citizen of the United Kingdom, with running a vast cyber extortion scheme. Jubair, who also went by the ...