Tag: ransom
Violent kidnapping, ransom demand… Three 18-year-old suspects arrested
What is the motive behind this affair? Three young people, aged 18, are placed in police custody, we learned this Monday from the prosecutor of Tours, in Indre-et-Loire. In a…
Cybercrime: More than a billion euros in ransom paid worldwide
“Crypto Crime Report 2024” Cyber attacks with blackmail software: Perpetrators steal more than a billion euros in ransom worldwide In a “ransomware” attack, the victims are usually first spied on…
What we know about LockBit, the world’s ‘most harmful’ hacker group, now dismantled
– / AFP This photo published by the British National Crime Agency (NCA) in London on February 20 shows a screenshot of the “LockBit” site after it was taken down.…
Viktor Orban plays the “ransom” card, Volodymyr Zelensky is combative
Did you miss the latest events on the war in Ukraine? 20 minutes takes stock for you every evening at 7:30 p.m. Between the strong declarations, the advances on the…
Study: Cyber attacks: One in nine victims pays ransom
study Cyber attacks: One in nine victims pays a ransom A computer is infected with ransomware: Allianz expects a worrying increase in cyber attacks worldwide this year, especially with blackmail…
A Russian suspected of being behind the “Ragnar group” ransomware indicted in France
A first head emerges from the nebula of the “Ragnar group”, the name of a virus which infects the computer systems of companies, encrypts their data then demands payment of…
After hacker attack: ransom demand on the NZZ media
The NZZ is being blackmailed. A ransom demand is said to have appeared in the anonymous part of the Internet, the so-called Darknet: hackers are demanding money for data that…
Crime: Suspected kidnappers demanded ransom
crime Suspected kidnappers demanded ransom Forces of the permanent criminal service (KDD) and forensics at the scene of the crime. photo © Fabian Koss/Ostalb Network/dpa It’s a kidnapping over several…
Ransom demands sent by email after the hack
It has been two weeks, this Wednesday, that the municipality of Lille has been operating in slow motion after the hacking of its computer system. An intrusion detected in the…
Ransom, Alègre, Lelandais… Nine new investigations opened
The relatives of Isabelle Mesnage, killed in 1986 in the North, had to wait until June 2022 for her murderer, Jacques Rançon, to be tried: to solve unsolved criminal cases…