Extortion cases continue to rise across the country, with the FBI reporting it as the second most common cybercrime in 2024.

Men, the survey showed, are also more likely than women to be the subject of these scams, with 65% of victims and 60% of ...

One of the largest providers of education tech paid off hackers so that they wouldn’t publish tens of millions of children’s personal information. But school districts are facing extortion attempts ...

Security researchers at Google say hackers targeting corporate executives with extortion emails have stolen data from “dozens of organizations,” one of the first signs that the hacking campaign may be ...

Following reports that the cybercriminal group Clop has been extorting E-Business Suite customers, Oracle linked the campaign to vulnerabilities addressed in July. The data extortion campaign ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Alphabet's Google said hackers are sending extortion emails to an unspecified number of executives from various companies, claiming to have stolen sensitive data from their ...

An individual or group of people claiming to be working with the Clop ransomware has been sending extortion emails to executives at several organizations since September 29, according to Google. The ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom threatened to sue the Trump administration on Friday over what he called “extortion,” after the federal government proposed that UCLA pay $1 billion to settle allegations ...

Justin Baldoni’s former agent Danny Greenberg compared Blake Lively’s alleged behavior on the set of the 2024 film “It Ends With Us” to “extortion” in court docs. The WME agent, who represented the ...

Justin Baldoni's former agent, Danny Greenberg, seemingly compared Blake Lively's behavior on the set of It Ends With Us to extortion. According to court documents obtained by multiple outlets on ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Alphabet's Google said hackers are sending extortion emails to an unspecified number of executives, claiming to have stolen sensitive data from their Oracle business applications ...

Justin Baldoni’s former agent, Danny Greenberg, seemingly compared Blake Lively’s behavior on the set of It Ends With Us to extortion. According to court documents obtained by multiple outlets on ...