In what amounts to solid advice on any day of the year, the Army Criminal Investigation Command, known as CID, is warning those in the Army community to be alert to the possibility of Internet ...

Ransomware is also a form of blackmail, and it's become a highly profitable extortion industry. Modern "double-extortion" ...

A new trend in extorting money from sports and gambling Web sites isn’t going away like security experts had predicted. Online gambling Web sites began receiving e-mail threats in October of last year ...

Attacks and extortion of internet service providers by Brazilian gangs is becoming increasingly common in states in the north and northeast, suggesting organized crime groups are driving legitimate ...

Officers arrested and booked a Hammond man with extortion in connection with activities that a woman accuser said began on Facebook, the Hammond Police Department reported Tuesday. After meeting a ...

Digital security community questions whether extortion could actually be successful WASHINGTON (AP) - The latest threat to computer users doesn't destroy data or steal passwords - it locks up a person ...

Chinese cybersecurity police recently cracked an online extortion case involving the "internet water army," with 15 suspects arrested and more than 20 devices seized, achieving a full-chain crackdown ...

BERLIN: Artificial intelligence (AI) platforms are making criminals' lives easier and those of their targets worse with Internet security company Malwarebytes warning of "havoc" arising out of ...

The Tulsa County Sheriff's Office is investigating whether an ex-convict who was charged earlier this week with extortion might have blackmailed other people in the state. Ward Victor Smith, 45, was ...

MARION, Iowa — Authorities say a 51-year-old Marion man is accused of trying to extort money from a 14-year-old girl he met on the Internet. The Gazette of Cedar Rapids is reporting that Daniel Herrig ...