As organizations improve their ability to recover from ransomware tactics in cyber extortion attacks, particularly through stronger backup and resilience strategies, attackers are under increasing ...

Google has reported a large-scale extraction of customer data by bad actors, who it claimed are involved in an extortion scheme. Google Threat Intelligence and Mandiant tracked the exploitation ...

Extortion-only attacks are increasing as data theft drives most ransomware claims, with many organizations unable to stop ...

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 ...

Threat researchers from CrowdStrike are pointing to the hacker group’s focus on more than just traditional ransomware attacks — as experts have separately linked the group to a data theft attack ...

ShinyHunters claims it stole 297GB of data from the Council of Europe, including payroll and medical records, but the ...

Infamous hacking group ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for the theft of a large dataset tied to Pornhub Premium users, threatening to leak or sell the information unless the company pays a ...

Food delivery platform Grubhub has confirmed a recent data breach after unauthorized actors accessed parts of its internal systems. The disclosure comes as sources tell BleepingComputer the company is ...

The FBI has warned that North Korean IT worker schemes are stealing data to extort their victims as part of efforts to generate revenue for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). The US ...

A member of the Russian Karakurt ransomware group has been charged in the U.S. for money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion crimes. An investigation from the FBI uncovered that 33-year old Deniss ...