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 ...

Cyber extortion is accelerating, powered by phishing gangs and crime-as-a-service. Explore 2025 trends and why attacks are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

A student at Assumption University in Worcester has been charged and agreed to plead guilty in connection with extorting two ...