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 ...

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, ...

Surrey police say the release of images of extortion suspects could be contributing to a decline in cases in recent weeks. In January, B.C.’s second-most-populous city had 10 extortion-related ...