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"Extorted deliberate act"

Hacker or trusted insider steals information and demands compensation for its return.

 

Extortion is a crime that consists of forcing a person, through the use of violence or intimidation, to make or omit a legal act or legal business with profit motive and with the intention of producing an injury of a patrimonial nature or of the passive subject.

"types of computer extortion"

cybernetic extortion:

Hackers take over computers, send rescue notes in local language and users pay for them.

Hackers take over computers, send rescue notes in local language and users pay for them. "It's the new Nigerian scam," say the specialists.

For example: 

* theft of data files containing customer credit card information...

  *Blocking the personal computer on request of economic rescue.

*Blocking personal accounts

 in different social networks.

*Ransomware that does not encrypt 
 

"Computer blakmail" 

It is a malicius computer program that infects and blocks files 

and asks for financial compensation in exchange for releasing 

them.

cybercriminals blackmail the victim so that the victim pays a 

certaim amount of money usually in the virtual currency 

cortions.

 For example:  
-Hacking accessing a system and damaging or destroying or
critical data.
 
For more information visit:
https://latam.kaspersky.com/resource-center/threats/computer-vandalism 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcsssAXN4hA

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