Modern Ransom Tactics: 5 Real Cases Redefining Extortion
Modern Ransom Tactics: 5 Real Cases Redefining Extortion. Ransom is no longer a word limited to movie scripts or historic kidnappings. In today’s digital age, coercion and extortion are evolving—often in strange, deeply personal, and high-tech ways. Whether it’s spiritual pressure inside a church, a violent home invasion, or the chilling use of artificial intelligence […]
zkLend Hacker Gets a Taste of Instant Karma: $5.4M in Stolen ETH Lost to Phishing Scam
zkLend Hacker Gets a Taste of Instant Karma: $5.4M in Stolen ETH Lost to Phishing Scam. It sounds unbelievable, but it happened — a hacker who drained millions from zkLend lost everything in a single misstep. The story began when an attacker managed to drain 2,930 ETH, roughly $5.4 million, from zkLend, a lending protocol […]
Extortionist Idriss Qibaa Faces Decades in Prison for $600K Social Media Scam.
Extortionist Idriss Qibaa Faces Decades in Prison for $600K Social Media Scam. Idriss Qibaa, a 28-year-old extortionist, faces decades in prison after pleading guilty to a series of crimes related to a brazen social media scheme that made him an estimated $600,000 a month. His operation, which involved stealing social media profiles and threatening victims […]
Sextortion: A Growing Threat to Teen Mental Health and Safety
The Rising Threat of Sextortion and Its Devastating Consequences Sextortion is one of the fastest-growing cybercrimes in North America, and it is having tragic effects on teenagers, particularly young men. Financial sextortion is a type of blackmail in which predators exploit vulnerable teens by threatening to release private, often explicit content unless they meet a […]
Guido Crosetto Impersonated in AI Scam Targeting Elites
Guido Crosetto Impersonated in AI-Generated Scam Targeting Italy’s Elite. Italy’s wealthiest entrepreneurs were targeted by fraudsters who impersonated Defence Minister Guido Crosetto in an elaborate scam. The criminals used AI-generated voices to mimic Crosetto’s voice, convincing high-profile individuals to send large sums of money for a fabricated cause. The scam’s origin was a phone call, […]
British-Nigerian Sentenced to 7 Years for $5M Business Email Scam
British-Nigerian Sentenced to 7 Years for $5M Business Email Scam. Oludayo Adeagbo, a British-Nigerian national also known as John Edwards and John Dayo, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in orchestrating a multimillion-dollar business email compromise (BEC) scheme. The fraud, which resulted in losses exceeding $5 million, involved a complex […]
Cybercrime: A Threat to Italy
As modern society becomes fully digitalised, cybercrime’s potential to cause damage grows ever greater.