Find out the common types of cyber extortion, the impacts of these incidents, and how to respond and prevent them in the first place.

In a harrowing incident of cyber extortion, a 68-year-old woman and her 75-year-old husband fell victim to a “digital custody” scam, losing ₹9 lakh to fraudsters impersonating government officials.

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 ...

Ransomware victims surged in Q4 2025 despite fewer active extortion groups, with data leaks rising 50%, ReliaQuest ...

Simply put, cyber-extortion is the practice of demanding money in exchange for not carrying out activities which could involve a victim's cyber information being at risk. It is an organised criminal ...

The region is up against tactics like data-leak extortion, credential-stealing campaigns, edge-device exploitation, and ...

The sportswear brand is investigating an alleged breach of its network that exposed some 188,347 files of highly sensitive ...

Ludhiana: Digital blackmail has gone local — and viral. NCRB data shows the city now ranks fourth among 34 metros for cyber-extortion (just behind Thiruvananthapuram, Agra, and Prayagraj), with cases ...

Nike is investigating what it described as a "potential cyber security incident" after the World Leaks ransomware gang leaked ...