35.82% YoY Decrease in Ransomware Payments
The ransomware landscape experienced significant changes in 2024, with cryptocurrency continuing to play a central role in extortion. However, the...
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Binance clients targeted in $27M theft and unsuccessful $13M extortion attempt
Two multi-million dollar thefts against Binance clients, one successful and one only briefly successful, were identified over the weekend.On-chain analyst...
US & UK Sanction Crypto Ransomware Group for Extortion
The collaborative efforts of the UK HM Treasury Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) and the US Office of Foreign...
Ransomware Revenue Drops Amidst Less Successful Extortion Attempts: Chainalysis
2022 has been a turbulent year. One good thing to come out of it is that – ransomware earnings are...
Actor Enzo Zelocchi Sued For Attempted Extortion, Allegedly Trying To Steal Bitcoin
Actor Enzo Zelocchi stole a laptop with $8 million in cryptocurrency he can't access without a password, and he's trying...
Abductors Extort Rs 1.3 Crore In Bitcoin From UP Businessman As Ransom; Arrested
Criminals in India have started demanding ransom in cryptocurrency. In a first of its kind incident that was reported from...
Bitcoin price boom is helping sustain ransomware hackers, FBI says
Ransomware actors have not eased their attacks on U.S. companies and institutions in recent months and high cryptocurrency prices are...