Neowin News Feed for: Extortion

Ransomware attackers threaten to send SWAT teams to patients of hacked hospitals

Martin Hodás — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 17:28:01 +0000

Losing patients' medical records due to a ransomware attack is a nightmare for hospitals. But the pressure to pay the ransom is even higher when hackers threaten to attack the patients too. Read more...

Microsoft issues warning about human-operated ransomware

Usama Jawad — Mon, 09 May 2022 13:00:04 +0000

Microsoft has issued a warning about the growing threat posed by human-operated ransomware in the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) gig economy. It has also provided some guidance for organizations. Read more...

Blackmailers demand 1.0000001 Bitcoin from hacked Ashley Madison users

Phi Ha — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 07:58:01 +0000

Opportunistic criminals have given Ashley Madison users another reason to worry about, after emails blackmailing users emerged. The extortionists are demanding exactly 1.0000001 BTC from people. Read more...

Nokia was blackmailed many times over the years - and usually paid up

Andy Weir — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 09:58:49 +0000

A former Nokia executive says that the company has been blackmailed numerous times, and frequently paid up, while further details have emerged on the multi-million euro ransom it paid in 2008. Read more...

Nokia paid millions of euros to software blackmailers

Andy Weir — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:07:59 +0000

Nokia paid millions of euros to blackmailers in 2008 who threatened to publish the source code for its Symbian OS - but after it left the money in a parking lot, police lost track of the suspects. Read more...

Teen "sextortion" hacker jailed for 18 months

Phi Ha — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:11:38 +0000

A hacker has been sentenced to 18 months of prison after extorting women by hacking their webcams to obtain illicit images. Among Jared James Abrahams' victims include Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf. Read more...

Florida defendant: RIAA = fraud, conspiracy, and extortion

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:58:25 +0000

While the RIAA continues its allegations of copyright infringement, defendants such as Suzy Del Cid, which accuses the RIAA of all sorts of nefarious misdeeds, are fighting back. UMG vs. Del Cid is being heard... Read more...

MySpace hackers avoid extortion rap

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:54:33 +0000

Blackmail charges have been dropped against a pair of hackers accused of mounting an extortion scam against MySpace as part of a plea-bargaining agreement. Shaun Harrison, 19, and Saverio Mondelli, 20, of Suffolk County, New... Read more...

Hotmail used to launch extortion scam

Steven Parker — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:03:10 +0000

A Hotmail user logged into their account this week to find that scammers had deleted all their e-mails except for one, which was from a hacker demanding cash in exchange for restoring the lost information,... Read more...