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

Grubhub confirms a data breach after hackers accessed internal systems as sources warn of extortion tied to stolen support ...

Ransomware victims surged in Q4 2025 despite fewer active extortion groups, with data leaks rising 50%, ReliaQuest ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nike is investigating what it described as a "potential cyber security incident" after the World Leaks ransomware gang leaked ...

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 ...

The SR Nagar police arrested a habitual cybercrime offender who posed as a cybercrime officer to extort money from victims.