Cyber extortion continues to proliferate with an unprecedented number of threat actors and a 77% year-on-year growth in cyber extortion victims, according to Orange Cyberdefense (OCD). In its ...

Anthropic revealed that a cybercriminal abused its agentic artificial intelligence coding tool to automate a large-scale data theft and extortion campaign, marking a "new evolution" in how threat ...

Extortion appears to be increasing in Honduras as smaller gangs fill the gap left by larger groups who are retreating from the criminal economy. At the same time, arrests for extortion are falling, ...