Howard Master and Alberto Orozco discuss how shifts in U.S. foreign policy, particularly under the new administration, are amplifying the risk of extortion for global businesses. They address the ...

Since 2018, a constant stream of extortion email scams have been targeting users with fake threats designed to scare you into sending a payment in bitcoins to avoid an embarrassing leak or threat of ...

Extortion is conventionally understood as an attempt or act of obtaining money, property, or services from an individual or organization through some form of coercion. Extortion is one of the most ...

It starts with a letter, phone call, or a text message — an anonymous figure demands cash, usually from a business owner, threatening their safety and livelihood unless they pay. It often ends with ...

In recent years Mexico’s criminal groups have diversified from drug trafficking into crimes like extortion, a business which necessarily involves the use of serious violence to build the requisite ...

SAN SALVADOR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Children travelling alone and mothers with infants in arms look forlorn and weary as they step off buses at the end of a 17-hour journey from Mexico to El ...

In recent months, a string of extortion-related shootings and crimes have proliferated across Metro Vancouver. Many of the cases stem from incidents involving Surrey-based businesses with a seeming ...

Reports of extortion in Colombia have increased 229 percent in the last four years, as guerrillas, mafias and street gangs cash in on a market believed to now be worth over a $1 billion a year, ...

Documents released by WikiLeaks this week said to describe CIA hacking methods should put corporate executive on notice to take the threat of hackers seriously, says WSJ Keywords columnist Christopher ...

When the director of the Illinois Board of Elections, Steve Sandvoss, was targeted in an online extortion attempt last week, he reportedly took the matter directly to the Illinois State Police. That ...