Follow-on extortion campaign attacks Akira and Royal victims
Victims of the Akira and Royal ransomware face additional extortion attempts. The methods used in the "follow-on extortion campaign" are pretty unique.
That is the finding of researchers of Arctic Wolf. Victims were supposedly offered help in the new extortion attempt. "This is the first publish... Read more
Dutch hacker gets four-year prison term for extorting companies, money laundering
Dutch hacker Pepijn Van der Stap has recently been sentenced to four years in prison. He was found guilty of extortion of multiple companies, selling stolen data and laundering his monetary gains through cryptocurrency.
Van der Stap and a number of fellow criminals attacked a large number of Dut... Read more