In November, cyber crooks told services company Allied Universal that they would make its files public if the company didn’t pay a ransom. Allied refused and...
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The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a cybercrime-focused division of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), registered over 350,000 complaints of...
The FBI is investigating a ransomware attack that shut down the Weather Channel’s program for an hour on Thursday, according to The Wall Street...
Ransomware and extortion aren’t going away in 2018. A group of hackers has threatened financial services provider Liberty with the leak of “top client” data if...
Two Iranian hackers were charged with credit card fraud, computer hacking conspiracy, and extortion, according to the United States Department of Justice...
Are you such a video game fanatic that you simply can’t wait to get your paws on sneak previews of upcoming hit titles? If so, your fervour may be...
After failed attempts to extort Netflix, a hacker looking to make waves in the infosec world finally decided to leak the as-of-yet unaired season five of...
Blackmailers are once again trying to make money out of the notorious Ashley Madison hack, which exposed the details of registered members of the cheating...
Recent predictions about the massive growth of ransomware attacks seem to be materializing, with another major breach. This one, on Dec. 27, led to the...
January 1 marked an important day in cybercrime penalties in California, as Senate Bill 1137 signed in September 2016 by Gov. Jerry Brown was finally enforced...