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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to combat cybercrime, fraud, and predatory schemes targeting ...

ABU DHABI, 14th March, 2026 (WAM) -- As part of the weekly awareness campaign of the Cyber Pulse initiative launched by the Cyber Security Council (CSC), the council warned against fake applications ...

The Australian Airline Qantas said on Sunday that the personal data of its customers had leaked online after being stolen in a cyberattack. The airline said that the data of 5.7 million customers had ...

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 ...