A Look at the Triple Extortion Ransomware – E Hacking News
Ransomware has traditionally concentrated on encryption, but one of the most common recent additions is the exfiltration and threatening disclosure of critical data...
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Pegasus iPhone Hacks Used as Bait in Extortion Scam – E Hacking News
A new extortion fraud attempts to profit from the recent Pegasus iOS spyware attacks to threaten victims to pay a blackmail demand. Last...
Black Hat: Enterprise players face ‘one-two-punch’ extortion in ransomware attacks
BLACK HAT USA: The adoption of double-extortion attacks against companies in ransomware campaigns is a rising trend in the space, researchers warn. Ransomware variants...
Saudi Aramco Facing $50M Cyber Extortion Over Leaked Data
Saudi Arabia’s state oil giant acknowledged Wednesday that leaked data from the company — files now apparently being used in a cyber-extortion attempt involving...
Extortion Emails by Bogus DarkSide Gang Targets Energy and Food Industry – E Hacking News
In bogus extortion emails sent to firms in the energy and food industries, threat actors impersonate the now-defunct DarkSide Ransomware campaign. The Darkside...
Darkside Ransomware Gang Received Nearly $5 Million as the Extortion Amount from the Victims of Colonial Pipeline Attack – E Hacking News
Security experts at London-based blockchain analytics firm Elliptic discovered the bitcoin wallet used by the ransomware group responsible for the Colonial Pipeline attack...
Babuk Quits Ransomware Encryption, Focuses on Data-Theft Extortion – E Hacking News
The Babuk ransomware group has decided to close the affiliate program and switch to an extortion model that does not rely on encrypting...
Leaked Apple Schematics & Extortion Threats Removed From Dark Web – E Hacking News
According to MacRumors, the ransomware group that stole schematics from Apple supplier Quanta Computer last week and threatened to release the trove of...
Shell’s Employees’ Visas Dumped Online as part of Extortion Attempt – E Hacking News
Royal Dutch Shell became the latest corporation to witness an attack by the Clop ransomware group. The compromised servers were rebuilt and brought...
Extortion Gang Breaches Cybersecurity Firm Qualys Using Accellion Exploit
Enterprise cloud security firm Qualys has become the latest victim to join a long list of entities to have suffered a data breach after...