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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Mexico ranks among the world’s top five nations for extortion, which is often called ‘the invisible crime.’ An ...

It was time for after-school pickup at the San Francisco de Asís elementary school in downtown Guayaquil one recent afternoon when someone slotted pamphlets beneath the windshield wipers of the school ...