#data extortion
5 stories taggeddata extortion.
A U.S. Government Agency Quietly Paid $1 Million to a Group That May Not Even Be Ransomware
A leaked negotiation chat and blockchain trail suggest Kairos runs pure data-theft extortion — no file-locking, just threats to leak.
Oracle Patches PeopleSoft Flaw Tied to ShinyHunters Activity, Stays Quiet on Zero-Day Status
CVE-2026-35273 has a fix. Whether attackers got there first is a question Oracle isn't answering.
UNC3753 Hit U.S. Professional Services Firms With Vishing and Walk-In Intrusions
Dozens of legal, financial, and consulting firms were hit between January and May 2026 in a data-theft extortion run that blended phone-based social engineering with physical site visits.
FBI Flags Silent Ransom Group's Physical Intrusion Tactic Against U.S. Law Firms
The threat actor known as Silent Ransom Group has added walk-in impersonation to its toolkit, sending actors posing as IT support into law firm offices to insert storage devices into employee computers.
The Login Page That Demanded a Ransom
ShinyHunters defaced Canvas mid-finals week, taking the learning platform offline and exposing what one researcher calls an eight-month attack arc against Instructure.