Coalition has reported a sharp rise in ransomware demands but a growing reluctance among victims to pay, in findings that ...

ShinyHunters said it stole millions of client records and threatened exposure if the firms didn't pay them off.

Hackers are shifting from encryption to reputational pressure, as cybersecurity chiefs face burnout, wider AI mandates and ...

Cyber extortion is evolving fast, driven by data theft, automation and AI. UK businesses can stay resilient by preparing for breach, strengthening Zero Trust and adopting modern defence strategies ...

A new report from Anthropic, a leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) company, highlights a troubling development in the cybersecurity landscape: threat actors are now using AI to automate nearly every ...

The global cyber environment is described as a "society wide crisis" driven by industrialized cybercrime and the fragmentation, or "balkanization," of cyberspace along geopolitical fault lines, which ...

A federal court has sent a clear message to cyber insurers: when an endorsement does not say what it means, courts will not fill in the gaps on the insurer's behalf.

Threat actors are now weaponising generative AI to rapidly build tailored scripts and malicious payloads, dramatically ...

A 19-year-old London resident is potentially looking at a 95-year prison sentence for allegedly orchestrating a large-scale cyber extortion operation. The scheme, which targeted around 47 U.S.

An unknown user going by the handle "Gitloker" is grabbing and wiping clean repositories on GitHub in an apparent effort to extort victims. The campaign, which a researcher at Chilean cybersecurity ...

Paul McCartney appears as a pirate gambler in the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film, now being held for ransom by hackers. (Photo: Disney) The response of anyone whose data is being held for ransom ...