A Ransomware Gang Wanted Its Victim to Pay Up. So It Went to the SEC.

[ad_1] Nov. 18, 2023 10:00 am ET The call is coming from inside the hack. A ransomware gang claimed this past week that it broke into the systems of the…

Vietnam official arrested over sand-mining extortion

[ad_1] Vietnam Police. Pix: Philippian Post A Vietnamese official has been arrested for allegedly colluding with underground gangs to extort money from sand mining businesses, police said Wednesday. Mining sand…

WSJ News Exclusive | ICBC Hackers Used Methods Previously Flagged by U.S. Authorities

[ad_1] The hackers who infiltrated the New York arm of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and disrupted trading in the U.S. Treasury market appeared to exploit three vulnerabilities…

Multifaceted Approach Needed to Deal With Protection Fee and Business Extortion Syndicates, NCOP Hears

[ad_1] Deputy Minister of Police, Mr Cassel Mathale, on Thursday led a debate in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on how to combat protection fee syndicates and the extortion…

Explainer-What is Lockbit? The digital extortion gang on a cybercrime spree

[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO/LONDON : A cybercriminal group named Lockbit, which on Friday said it breached the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China(ICBC), has hacked some of the world’s largest organisations…

Hackers Hit U.S. Arm of Chinese Bank

[ad_1] A U.S. subsidiary of China’s biggest bank was hacked this week, threatening a temporary logjam for some trades in the Treasury bond market. ICBC Financial Services, a New York-based…

Navy debunks extortion, harassment allegations in Badagry

[ad_1] Commanding Officer, Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base (FOB), Badagry, Navy Captain Aiwuyor Adams-Aliu (3rd left Front row) with some of his operatives and executives of the Independent Petroleum Marketers…

Policemen nab colleagues for abduction, extortion in Rivers

[ad_1] Policemen in Rivers State have arrested and detained four of their colleagues, who allegedly extorted N6.5 million from three persons along Sani Abacha road in Government Reserved Area (GRA)…

IMT Enugu and false allegations of extortion | The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News

[ad_1] Recently, social media platforms were awash with some serialized snippets of what may at best be called figment of the imaginations and fabrications of some hired social media hirelings…

Hacker gang Clop deploys extortion tactics against global companies

[ad_1] The Russian-speaking gang of hackers that compromised UK groups such as British Airways and the BBC has claimed it has siphoned off sensitive data from more institutions including US-based…