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What is cyber extortion?

Find out the common types of cyber extortion, the impacts of these incidents, and how to respond and prevent them in the ...
Speaking at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday, Moncada accused Washington of “the greatest extortion known in our history,” after U.S. forces seized two of the nation’s oil ...
There’s bad publicity, and then there’s what’s happening right now to restaurants on Google Maps: a wave of fake one-star reviews that goes beyond unfair feedback and straight into extortion territory ...
South Korea’s Hyundai Group on Friday received a threatening email demanding 13 Bitcoin to stop a bomb from going off at its Jongno-gu building, according to recent reports from media outlets. “If you ...
Ilia Topuria, the undefeated UFC lightweight champion, is “stepping away” from fighting due to an alleged extortion plot against him, he announced. “Over the past several weeks, I have made the ...
An undefeated UFC star is taking an unexpected hiatus from competition because he's dealing with an extortion plot tied to "false allegations of domestic abuse." Ilia Topuria revealed on Monday, Dec.
A shop owner facing threats shutters the clothing store that had been in his family for generations. A leader of a citrus growers association is kidnapped and killed after refusing mob demands for a ...
When the UFC 324 card was announced with Justin Gaethje and Paddy Pimblett meeting in the main event for an interim lightweight title, many eyebrows were raised as Ilia Topuria, the undefeated UFC ...
Authorities say the group, "Greggy's Cult," later helped spawn the 764 network. The Justice Department has indicted a former Navy sailor and four others for allegedly leading an online extortion group ...
A former Assumption University student has been sentenced to four years in prison for hacking into the computer networks of two US-based companies and extorting them for ransom, prosecutors said.
VANCOUVER — The Law Society of British Columbia says it has become aware of lawyers receiving extortion threats for "substantial sums of money." The legal profession regulator sent out a notice to its ...