Coalition has reported a sharp rise in ransomware demands but a growing reluctance among victims to pay, in findings that ...

A 45-year-old man in Maharashtra's Thane district committed suicide after being blackmailed by cybercriminals who threatened ...

A notorious cyber extortion group earlier this month allegedly threatened to publish what it claimed were millions of client records stolen from two of the nation’s largest registered investment ...

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 ...

ABU DHABI, 14th March, 2026 (WAM) -- As part of the weekly awareness campaign of the Cyber Pulse initiative launched by the Cyber Security Council (CSC), the council warned against fake applications ...

A 19-year-old London resident is potentially looking at a 95-year prison sentence for allegedly orchestrating a large-scale cyber extortion operation. The scheme, which targeted around 47 U.S.

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 ...

Cybercriminals are increasingly staging fake data breaches to launch extortion attempts against KYC-AML companies. Recently, hackers devised a new method of targeting a KYC company by running a ...

Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to combat cybercrime, fraud, and predatory schemes targeting ...

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 ...