The Indian diaspora in the US faces a dramatic rise in cyber threats and extortion, with complaints increasing from 8 to 613 in one year.

The FBI's IC3 program in 2025 fielded 452,868 cyber-related fraud complaints that added up to more than $17 billion in money stolen from Americans. From investment and romance scams to extortion to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A federal jury convicted a Charlotte man on Wednesday for carrying out a cyber extortion scheme against an international ...

"It is said that the law is always at least several years behind the technology. With respect to the application of a criminal statute the doctrine of lenity, among other established rules, acts as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Cameron Curry, 27, was found guilty of six counts of transmitting interstate communications with the intent to extort.

A federal jury has convicted a Charlotte man in a cyber extortion scheme that targeted a Washington, D.C.-based technology ...