Tag: Extortion

Hacking

AI-Pushed Ransomware FunkSec Targets 85 Victims Utilizing Double Extortion Techniques

Jan 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananSynthetic Intelligence / Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have make clear a nascent synthetic intelligence (AI) assisted ransomware household known as FunkSec that sprang...

Hacking

Canadian Suspect Arrested Over Snowflake Information Breach and Extortion Assaults

Nov 05, 2024Ravie LakshmananInformation Breach / Cybercrime Canadian regulation enforcement authorities have arrested a person who's suspected to have performed a collection of hacks stemming...

Cyber Security

Interbank confirms information breach following failed extortion, information leak

Interbank, one among Peru's main monetary establishments, has confirmed an information breach after a menace actor who hacked into its programs...

Hacking

Ex-Engineer Charged in Missouri for Failed $750,000 Bitcoin Extortion Try

Sep 03, 2024Ravie LakshmananInsider Menace / Community Safety A 57-year-old man from the U.S. state of Missouri has been arrested in reference to a failed...

Cyber Security

Worker arrested for locking Home windows admins out of 254 servers in extortion plot

A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial firm headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey, was arrested after locking Home windows admins out of 254...

Cyber Security

U.S. fees Karakurt extortion gang’s “cold case” negotiator

A member of the Russian Karakurt ransomware group has been charged within the U.S. for cash laundering, wire fraud, and extortion crimes. An investigation from...

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