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

According to the MGA's 2026 Cyber Claims Report, initial ransom demands surged 47% year-on-year in 2025. Despite this, a record 86% of businesses targeted in ransomware incidents refused to pay, with ...

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 ...

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

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

Hacking group CL0P’s attacks on MOVEit point to ways that cyber extortion may be evolving, illuminating possible trends in who perpetrators target, when they time their attacks and how they put ...

A new global report out this week captures trends in how cyber attacks evolved in 2023 and are likely to keep evolving throughout 2024. 2023 saw more threat actors target end-of-life products, ...

Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, has been facing renewed extortion from cybercriminals just a month after paying a ransom to prevent the release of data stolen in a February 2024 ...

Cyber extortion continues to proliferate with an unprecedented number of threat actors and a 77% year-on-year growth in cyber extortion victims, according to Orange Cyberdefense (OCD). In its ...

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

One of the largest car rental companies in Europe fell victim to a fabricated cyberattack. Why would adversaries claim a mock attack? To understand the real intentions and motivations behind such ...

A relatively new data extortion operation going by the name RansomHouse appears to have turned over the systems of semiconductor specialist AMD, stealing more than 450GB of the organisation’s data and ...