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 ...

When cybercriminals hijack your data or website and demand a ransom, you become a victim of cyber extortion. These attacks — and the subsequent ransom payments they require — are on the rise, with ...

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 ...

A hacker has exploited a leading artificial intelligence chatbot to conduct the most comprehensive and lucrative AI cybercriminal operation known to date, using it to do everything from find targets ...

There has been a significant rise in extortion, email, and text scams (phishing) targeting banking customers, resulting in considerable financial and emotional distress for thousands in recent months.