There has been an alarming increase in threat calls and extortion demands targeting Indian celebrities. From Salman Khan to Ranveer Singh, several Bollywood stars have been targeted by the Lawrence ...

Cyber extortion continues to proliferate with an unprecedented number of threat actors and a 77% year-on-year growth in cyber extortion victims, according to Orange Cyberdefense (OCD). In its ...

Extortionists are targeting upscale private schools in Peru’s third-largest city, underscoring how exclusive educational institutions have emerged as sources of income for organized crime groups.

Extortion appears to be increasing in Honduras as smaller gangs fill the gap left by larger groups who are retreating from the criminal economy. At the same time, arrests for extortion are falling, ...

Cowboys QB Dak Prescott filed a civil lawsuit on Monday, claiming that a Fort Worth woman falsely accused him of sexual assault in the hopes of extorting $100 million from him. The suit, filed in ...

Double extortion ransomware is a type of cyberattack that encrypts a victim's data, like in a traditional ransomware attack, while also adding a second attack vector of stealing that data. This type ...

Anthropic revealed that a cybercriminal abused its agentic artificial intelligence coding tool to automate a large-scale data theft and extortion campaign, marking a "new evolution" in how threat ...

There has been a concerning rise in threatening calls and extortion requests aimed at Indian celebrities. From Salman Khan to Ranveer Singh, numerous Bollywood stars have been targeted have been ...