Cameron Curry, 27, was found guilty of six counts of transmitting interstate communications with the intent to extort.

Officials say he worked as a contracted employee at the victim company for six months before the extortion plot.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 45-year-old man in Maharashtra's Thane district committed suicide after being blackmailed by cybercriminals who threatened to circulate morphed obscene images of him. He transferred large sums of ...

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 ...