Ransom

Central America 10/18/21, 15:51

A Haitian criminal gang suspected of kidnapping 16 American missionaries and 1 Canadian allegedly did the same to many more earlier in the year. Authorities confirmed seven women, six men and five children are the latest Mawozo 400 abductees so far in 2021. They were abducted after visiting an orphanage they ...

Europe 07/12/21, 16:17

The municipality of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, declared a catastrophe, following the worst cyberattack on the country perpetrated by hackers. The federal cybersecurity watchdog confirmed the incursion that crippled the municipality's systems, and experts believe it could take at least a week to repair the damage, according to ...

U.S. 07/03/21, 16:03

Hackers have hijacked the information of more than 200 small businesses in Florida and are demanding millions of dollars in ransom, posing a serious threat to the country's supply chain.  The criminals exploited a weakness in the vendor Kaseya's technology management software and, after changing parts of it, encrypted customer files, ...

U.S. 05/14/21, 17:57

The Colonial Pipeline Company was reported to have done an "about face" and paid its extortionists an amount of cryptocurrency equivalent to $5 million.  On Thursday, May 13, Bloomberg asserted Colonial paid the ransom just hours after the cyberattack last Friday, which had forced the company to shut down its pipeline ...