Cameron Curry, 27, was found guilty of six counts of transmitting interstate communications with the intent to extort.
A Charlotte man was found guilty in a cyber extortion scheme against an international technology company, authorities confirmed.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...