Find out the common types of cyber extortion, the impacts of these incidents, and how to respond and prevent them in the first place.

Despite high-profile attacks and publicity, advanced persistent threats continue to strike organizations in all sectors. How can security leaders improve defenses? ThreatTrack's Usman Choudhary offers ...

Grubhub confirms a data breach after hackers accessed internal systems as sources warn of extortion tied to stolen support ...

A new report from Anthropic, a leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) company, highlights a troubling development in the cybersecurity landscape: threat actors are now using AI to automate nearly every ...

The region is up against tactics like data-leak extortion, credential-stealing campaigns, edge-device exploitation, and ...

The global cyber environment is described as a "society wide crisis" driven by industrialized cybercrime and the fragmentation, or "balkanization," of cyberspace along geopolitical fault lines, which ...

"It is said that the law is always at least several years behind the technology. With respect to the application of a criminal statute the doctrine of lenity, among other established rules, acts as ...

In 80% of the cyber incidents Microsoft’s security teams investigated last year, attackers sought to steal data—a trend driven more by financial gain than intelligence gathering. According to the ...

An unknown user going by the handle "Gitloker" is grabbing and wiping clean repositories on GitHub in an apparent effort to extort victims. The campaign, which a researcher at Chilean cybersecurity ...

Nike is investigating what it described as a "potential cyber security incident" after the World Leaks ransomware gang leaked ...

As data theft extortion surges and vendor risk grows, Canadian boards, brokers and risk managers face rising professional exposure if cyber programs lag behind the threat ...

The Australian Airline Qantas said on Sunday that the personal data of its customers had leaked online after being stolen in a cyberattack. The airline said that the data of 5.7 million customers had ...