All CosmicBytez Labs articles tagged #Extortion, across news, security advisories, how-to guides, and projects.
Rhysida ransomware claims 5.7TB stolen from a Berlin Senate department; city officials say they will not pay the 30 BTC ransom demand.
McKesson confirms unauthorized access to two business units after ShinyHunters claims 284 million records and demands ~$55M by Sept 1.
Extortion group FulcrumSec claims it stole 86GB of data from Manchester Airports Group, affecting roughly 8.7 million customers across three UK airports.
A ransomware affiliate operating as 'Ransom Busters' contacts breach victims posing as a recovery service, then double-extorts them for $20K–$60K.
Fortune 500 distributor Wesco confirmed a breach of its cloud CRM after ExfilSquad published 2.6M allegedly stolen records when ransom talks failed.
The DeadLock ransomware group is leveraging Polygon blockchain smart contracts and the Session messaging network to build decentralized extortion infrastructure that's significantly harder for law enforcement to disrupt.
Vishing extortion group UNC6671 (formerly BlackFile) rebrands into Redact, Pink, Helix, and Falcon after earning millions from enterprise voice phishing.
Notorious threat actor ShinyHunters claims to have breached residential security company Brinks Home, threatening to publicly release sensitive customer and employee data if demands are not met.
The ShinyHunters extortion group has claimed responsibility for a supply chain attack against Ernst & Young, alleging access to the Big Four firm's Jira, GitHub, and Azure environments via a compromised third-party IT support platform. EY confirmed an April breach involving a third-party system and client tax documents.
Stadler Rail has publicly rejected a CHF 10 million (~$12.3M USD) ransom demand from the Everest extortion group following a breach of a supplier...
The Anubis ransomware gang claims responsibility for a cyberattack on Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy subsidiary, threatening to publish stolen corporate data...
Abbott Laboratories is investigating two separate cybersecurity incidents: confirmed unauthorized access to legacy Exact Sciences systems in its Cancer...
The WorldLeaks extortion group claims to have stolen 720 GB of data from Centers Laboratory, a healthcare testing and laboratory services provider,...
A small Ohio county reportedly paid a cyber extortion group $1 million to prevent the public release of sensitive stolen government data, highlighting the...
A leaked negotiation chat and blockchain analysis reveal that a U.S. government entity paid approximately $1 million to the Kairos extortion group to...
The Icarus extortion group compromised Klue, an AI-powered competitive intelligence platform, harvesting OAuth tokens to drain CRM data from hundreds of...
Nintendo of America has confirmed that approximately 1GB of employee data — including W-9 forms, bank statements, and HR survey responses — was...
The Council of Europe, Europe's oldest intergovernmental body, is probing data breach claims made by the ShinyHunters extortion group, which claimed...
Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise operator, confirms a breach affecting nearly 6M people after ShinyHunters' April 2026 extortion claim.
7-Eleven has confirmed a data breach after ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen more than 600,000 Salesforce records containing personal information and...
Grafana Labs confirmed that hackers downloaded its source code after breaching its GitHub environment using a stolen access token. The attackers attempted...
Grafana has disclosed that an unauthorized party obtained a GitHub access token, used it to download the company's entire codebase, and then attempted...
Educational technology company Instructure, parent of Canvas LMS, has reached an undisclosed 'agreement' with the ShinyHunters extortion group after a...
A data extortion attack against Canvas LMS defaced login pages with a ransom demand, disrupting classes and coursework at school districts and...
ShinyHunters has struck education technology giant Instructure again, exploiting a fresh vulnerability to deface Canvas login portals across hundreds of...
A newly tracked financially motivated threat group called BlackFile has been conducting data theft and extortion campaigns against retail and hospitality...
Home security giant ADT has confirmed a data breach after the ShinyHunters extortion group threatened to publish stolen data unless a ransom is paid,...
Angelo Martino, a former ransomware payment negotiator for DigitalMint, has pleaded guilty to helping accomplish extort $75.3 million in ransom from five...
WorldLeaks extortion group claims responsibility for a data breach on Nike, allegedly exposing 1.4 terabytes of internal data including supply chain and...