Cyber extortion is a crime involving an attack or threat of an attack, coupled with a demand for money or some other response, in return for stopping an attack or preventing one from happening. Cyber ...

Triple extortion ransomware is a type of ransomware attack where a cybercriminal extorts their victim multiple times -- namely by encrypting data, exposing exfiltrated data and then threatening an ...

Cybercriminals are becoming more aggressive in their effort to maximize disruption and compel the payment of ransom demands, and now there’s a new extortion tactic in play. In early November, the ...

The Obama Administration faced a skeptical U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday as it argued that the attempted extortion of a lawyer's advice is a crime under a 1946 federal law. The Obama Administration ...