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

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

A Charlotte man was found guilty in a cyber extortion scheme against an international technology company, authorities confirmed.

Coalition has reported a sharp rise in ransomware demands but a growing reluctance among victims to pay, in findings that underline how insured organizations and their carriers are changing the ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 notorious cyber extortion group earlier this month allegedly threatened to publish what it claimed were millions of client records stolen from two of the nation’s largest registered investment ...

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 45-year-old man in Maharashtra's Thane district committed suicide after being blackmailed by cybercriminals who threatened to circulate morphed obscene images of him. He transferred large sums of ...