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Join the Cybersecurity and Incident Response Group on LinkedInAshley Madison data breach fuels new cyber extortion schemes | Insurance Business
In July 2015, a group of hackers identifying themselves as The Impact Team gained access to the databases of Ashley Madison, stealing the sensitive information, nude photographs, and credit card details of 37 million users. Nearly five years later, email security company Vade Secure found that several Ashley Madison users had received an email from […]
2014: The Year Extortion Went Mainstream — Krebs on Security
The year 2014 may well go down in the history books as the year that extortion attacks went mainstream. Fueled largely by the emergence of the anonymous online currency Bitcoin, these modern-day shakedowns are blurring the lines between online and offline fraud, and giving novice computer users a crash course in modern-day cybercrime. via 2014: The […]