An initiative that helps victims of ransomware recover their files free of charge says it has helped more than 200,000 ransomware victims, saving businesses an ...
MUSTANG, OK — An Oklahoma family is warning others after it received a ransom call earlier this month from men demanding money in return for information about a...
A criminal gang operating in India kidnapped and tortured cryptocurrency traders in recent weeks before demanding 80 bitcoins as ransom, police say....
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Curtis Jenkins III, who had been missing since Sunday and is the grandson of Camden City Council President Curtis Jenkins Sr., was found dead Tuesday, county of...
Officials from Lake City, Florida, have fired an IT employee last week after the city was forced to approve a gigantic ransomware payment of nearly $500,000 las...
Any competent business advisor would likely tell a client that spending £60,000 in order to potentially fend off an incident that could cost that organisations millions of dollars would be money well spent....
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The wife of a Norwegian billionaire who vanished eight months ago in a suspected abduction could have been killed - and her kidnapping may have been faked to hi...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States must do a better job communicating with families of American hostages held overseas, including telling “hard truths” to love...
The kidnapping and murder of a university student has sparked broad concern about a rise in targeted kidnappings in Mexico City, and in particular the possible role of criminal group Las Pelonas in these crimes....
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The Kanagawa Prefectural Police Headquarters is seen in Yokohama's Naka Ward. (Mainichi) YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) -- A 64-year-old man was arrested Tuesday for allegedl...
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – A Taiwanese businessman was abducted in Phnom Penh, Cambodia last week by several attackers who have since been arrested....
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Riviera Beach officials voted this week to pay 65 Bitcoins to the hacker who seized the city's computer systems, forcing the local police and fire departments to write down the hundreds of daily 911 calls on paper, CNN affiliate WPEC reported....
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Identity theft is said to be the world's fastest-growing crime, but in sheer chutzpah there can be few cons to match the story of the fake French minister from ...
Singapore Police said the unidentified man, 20, received an unsolicited offer for sex from what he thought was a woman he met on an online dating app....
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The Baltimore City government has been under siege since May 7, as it was hit with a ransomware attack that saw hackers demand $100,000 in bitcoin and officials refuse to pay the ransom. In a new development, Google disabled officials’ Gmail accounts...
Three people have been held by the crime branch for allegedly seeking ransom from a television producer in Mumbai. The accused have been identified as Rohan Red...
Chief Amusa Dunsin, the chief hunter in Ibokun, headquarters of Obokun Local Government Area of Osun state who was kidnapped on Monday alongside a woman, Mrs Ta...
Kidnappers held a man hostage, ripped out diamond teeth implants from his mouth and threatened to give him a lethal dose of heroin if his family didn’t pay to rescue him. Saleh Al-Hindi was tied up in a crack den and mocked by his kidnappers during t...
Alessandro Sandrini disappeared in October 2016 after going on holiday to Turkey. In August last year, he appeared in a video pleading for help with masked gunm...
Frequent acts of violent crime have grown to form a major threat to Nigeria’s national security. These include instances of militancy, insurgency and banditry. ...
New Delhi: Six people were arrested on Saturday for kidnapping the 64-year-old managing director of a marine engineering company based in Mumbai, and holding him hostage in Delhi....
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Anonymous hackers breached the city of Baltimore's servers two weeks ago. Since then, those servers' digital content has been locked away — and the online aspec...
