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Here's a story of super-sized digital blackmail aimed at one of the biggest cryptocoin exchanges out there.

Another database has fallen to extortion hackers, this time containing 2.1 million records belonging to Mexican bookseller, Librería Porrúa.

Europol Marks Three-Year Anniversary of Non-Profit Security InitiativeThree years since its launch, the No More Ransom portal has assisted 200,000 ransomware victims and stopped $108 million from...

Plus, Florida Man out of a job for paying off hackers Between the plentiful beverages and copious amounts of meat, pretty much everyone in the US is hung over from Independence Day in one form or...

As More Victims Pay, Experts Warn of Criminals Becoming Further EmboldenedBritain's biggest provider of forensic services, Eurofins, has paid a ransom to attackers who crypto-locked its systems...

A Florida city agreed to pay $600,000 in ransom to hackers who took over its computer system, the latest in thousands of attacks worldwide aimed at extorting money from governments and businesses....

Ransomware attacks can disrupt business and lead to massive costs, according to Forrester. Here's why you should consider paying along with other incident response plans.

The band shrugged off the threat and released the files on Bandcamp. They're long and not very interesting, they said.

The US city of Baltimore, a victim this month of a cyberattack that paralyzed part of its computer network, will not pay a ransom to undo the damage, Mayor Bernard Young said Tuesday. read more

Cybercriminals have been wiping GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket repositories and asking their owners to pay a ransom to recover the data. The impacted Git service providers believe the attackers have...