Officials say he worked as a contracted employee at the victim company for six months before the extortion plot.

"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 federal jury convicted a Charlotte man on Wednesday for carrying out a cyber extortion scheme against an international technology company based in Washington, D.C. Cameron Curry, 27, was found ...

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 ...

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 ...

ABU DHABI, 14th March, 2026 (WAM) -- As part of the weekly awareness campaign of the Cyber Pulse initiative launched by the Cyber Security Council (CSC), the council warned against fake applications ...

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 ...