As organizations improve their ability to recover from ransomware tactics in cyber extortion attacks, particularly through stronger backup and resilience strategies, attackers are under increasing pressure to extract value whenever they can ...

In this post, we dive into the decentralized architecture of “The Com,” exposing its hybrid ecosystem of hacking, extortion, and real-life violence—and how it fuels a ruthless pipeline of cyber-fraud cycles and ...

This article highlights how the Canvas/Instructure breach exposes the complex and treacherous legal landscape of ransomware payments, moving beyond the business ethics of negotiation to the potential violations of sanctions regimes, anti-money ...

EdTech firm Instructure said this week it paid the ransom to the ShinyHunters extortion group to regain control of its data more than a week after discovering the data breach and stolen ...

The ShinyHunters extortion group is claiming responsibility for a breach of home and commercial security vendor ADT that exposed the data of 5.5 million customers. attack appears to be part of a ...

Cyber-driven fraud – from investment schemes to business email compromise (BEC) to confidence and romance scams – accounted for almost 85% of the losses Americans suffered through fraud crimes last year, totaling ...

Explore the complexities of cyber insurance, including common claim denials, coverage disputes, and evolving risks like ransomware, AI fraud, and BEC. Learn how to navigate insurance ecosystems to secure reliable coverage that ...

The Cl0p ransomware group exploited a zero-day security flaw in Oracle's E-Business Suite to compromise corporate networks and steal data, according to Mandiant. The threat actors are sending emails to executives of ...

Recent reports about legal proceedings, a 34-year-old Russian-Canadian national, Mikhail Vasiliev, has been handed a sentence of almost four years in Canadian prison. Vasiliev’s involvement in the global ransomware scheme known as ...

LAPSUS$ is an extortionist threat group that became active on December 10, 2021. Unlike the majority of extortionist groups that typically rely on a combination of ransomware and data leaks, LAPSUS$ is ...