Ransom

The deadline set by the Clop cyber crime gang for victims whose data was exfiltrated in a mass breach of Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer tool to contact the criminals to negotiate a ransom passes today (14 June). The gang has…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Australian firm Latitude Financial said Tuesday it refused to pay a ransom to hackers who stole millions…

Consumer lender Latitude Financial Group has confirmed that hackers who stole the details of 14 million consumers last month have made a ransom demand. Latitude did not specify how much was demanded, or when the demand was made, but said it…

Supercar manufacturer Ferrari has warned customers that their personal data may be at risk after a limited number of its IT systems were compromised and information exfiltrated by an as-yet unspecified threat actor. The Maranello,…

Gaming on a laptop can be quite a fuss, as players usually sacrifice graphical and computing power when compared to playing the same titles on a desktop. However, with the increasing capabilities of the latest CPUs and GPUs for…

Peaky Blinders: The King’s Ransom has shared a “mixed reality” trailer ahead of the release of the immersive narrative VR game next month. Set for release on March 9 for Meta Quest 2 and PICO 4, Peaky Blinders: The King’s Ransom is “a…

The LockBit ransomware gang has leaked a tranche of data exfiltrated from Royal Mail’s IT systems during its January 2022 cyber attack, and set a fresh ransom demand of £33m as it renews its efforts to force the postal service to…

Royal Mail has supposedly rebuffed an $80m (£66m) ransom demand from the LockBit ransomware gang, saying “under no circumstances” would it pay “the absurd amount of money” demanded. This is according to what appear to be chat logs…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A man types on a computer keyboard in front of the displayed cyber code in this illustration picture taken on March 1, 2017.REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters)…

Indian billionaire Gautam Adani. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Asia’s richest man and Adani Group founder Gautam Adani was kidnapped by bandits in 1998 for ransom and when terrorists attacked Mumbai almost 11 years later, he was among the…