Extortionists Target Web Bookies With Child Porn Threats
News Child pornography is the latest weapon being wielded by web-based extortionists who are targetting online betting firms with denial of service blackmail threats. Blackmailers warned UK-based online bookmaker Blue Square on Tuesday that they would...
[October 27, 2004, 13:45]
Cyber-extortionists 'cost UK Bookmakers £40m'
News A gang of alleged cyber-extortionists arrested in Russia last week are accused of costing UK online bookmakers massive amounts of money through lost business. Russian police said on Wednesday that the ring of hackers caused about £40m in damage...
[July 30, 2004, 10:55]
Thousands Of Companies Are Paying Off Online Extortionists
News Alan Paller, director of research for security organisation SANS, said today that online extortion was rife and that cybercrime was set to get worse. Six or seven thousand organisations are paying online extortion demands," said Paller on Friday at...
[October 8, 2004, 14:25]
William Hill Ups Its Game Against Hackers
News The entire online betting industry faces an ongoing battle in the fight against hackers and extortionists, according to William Hill's IT chief. In the latest of our CIO Vision video interview series, Victor Kemeny, IT director at the UK's largest...
[October 5, 2006, 10:40]
News Burst: Banks Hit By High-tech Extortion
News Banks and other financial institutions have been targeted by high-tech extortionists, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) confirmed Monday. The ICC said it is aware of several extortion attempts made by computer crackers on international...
[September 20, 1999, 10:21]
Insurers Scramble To Offer E-crime Protection
News Insurers, however, are still coming to terms with the dangers posed by hackers, virus writers and high-tech extortionists. With e-crime estimated to be costing Britain billions of pounds per year, UK businesses are increasingly looking to their...
[February 25, 2004, 16:45]
Sun Has Betrayed Us All
Talkback They're the legal-proccess-abusing extortionists. Enough with the Sun Bashing please. Sun is a company that's struggling to survive and its key customers and markets, in mission-critical computing, have zero-tolerance for the uncertainty that a...
[October 8, 2004, 12:08]
Microsoft Says Virus Writer Bounties Are Working
News What we need to do is to make sure that it doesn't attractively pay," he said, emphasising the need for malicious hackers, high-tech extortionists, virus writers and other cybercriminals to be tracked down.
[February 24, 2004, 16:50]
Open-source Gurus Slam SCO
News Now they are extortionists," Torvalds said in an email interview. Two prominent figures in the open-source realm have rejected SCO Group's argument that Linux users should pay the company licence fees for using the operating system.
[August 1, 2003, 9:10]
Criminal Gangs Blackmail Web Users With Porn Threat
News As in the recent case of the Russian extortionists arrested this week, some people will pay up rather than risk the wrath of the gangsters. While criminal gangs are more widely associated with threatening denial of service attacks unless they get a...
[July 22, 2004, 16:30]
Online Extortion Victim Speaks Out
News Though he now employs several penetration testing companies to continually check he's leaving no door open for the Russian extortionists to return. The founder of an online payment system has spoken out about his experience of being targeted by...
[May 31, 2005, 12:40]
'Storm Worm' Slithers On
News Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, said the company expected more attacks over the coming days, and that the botnet would most likely be hired out for spamming, adware propagation, or be sold to extortionists to launch...
[January 22, 2007, 13:06]
Trojans Used For Online Extortion
News In a new type of online attack, extortionists remotely encrypt user files and then demand money for the key to decode the information. In a case documented by San Diego-based Web security company Websense, the attack occurs after a user visits a...
[May 25, 2005, 10:35]
Police Play Down Grand National Hack Threat
News Claims that organised criminals will launch a flood of electronic attacks on the Internet sites of British bookmakers this weekend are wide of the mark, the UK National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) said on Wednesday.
[March 31, 2004, 15:05]
Insecure Networks Targeted By Paedophiles
News Extortionists and fraudsters, drug dealers and malicious hackers -- such as those who perpetrate denial of service attacks -- are also targeted. The head of the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) has warned that UK companies with poor IT...
[December 10, 2002, 15:22]
Malware's Next Trick
News Extortionists may also rent them to launch DDoS attacks on legitimate Web sites. In January this year, 20-year-old Jeanson James Ancheta pleaded guilty in a California court to charges that he had broken into government computers and taken control...
[April 18, 2006, 16:40]
