extortion

Kaspersky gives a close look to the Russian underground

According to Kaspersky Lab, bad actors in the Russian underground have stolen more than $790 Million over 3 years, from…

9 years ago

ProtonMail paid a $6000 Ransom to stop DDoS Attacks

ProtonMail has paid a $6000 Ransom to stop prolonged DDoS attacks that knocked its services offline since Tuesday. Unfortunately, the…

9 years ago

Chimera, a new strain of ransomware in the wild

According to a German website, there is a new strain of ransomware dubbed Chimera that also threatens to publish personal…

9 years ago

10 Days to crack 11 Million Ashley Madison hashed passwords

Ashley Madison - A group of hackers which calls itself CynoSure Prime has cracked more than 11 Million hashed passwords…

9 years ago

Cyber criminal crew DD4BC extorts businesses via DDoS

According to a report recently issued by Akamai, the DD4BC criminal group has been responsible for at least 114 DDoS…

9 years ago

Ashley Madison Users victims of extortion and phishing

Security researchers have observed a spike in extortion attempts and phishing campaigns against the Ashley Madison users ... are they…

9 years ago

Hidden Tear Ransomware is now open Source and available on GitHub

The Turkish security researchers Utku Sen has published the first open source ransomware  for educational purposes that anyone can use.…

9 years ago

Adult FriendFinder dating site hack exposes million users

Cyber criminals have hacked the popular online dating websites Adult FriendFinder leaking the highly sensitive sexual information on a forum…

10 years ago

Ransomware creators are laundering their Bitcoin rapidly since the currency value is dropping

The drop in the value of the Bitcoin is pushing cyber criminals to rapidly cash-out their ears with ransomware in…

10 years ago

TeslaCrypt ransomware encrypts also gaming data

TeslaCrypt is a new strain of ransomware, spotted in the wild by experts at Emsisoft, which is also targeting users…

10 years ago

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