Sextortion

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• Aspen Institute
• cybercrime
• Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Executive order
• Geopolitics
• Government
• investment scams
• marco rubio
• Policy
• romance scams
• scammers
• scams
• Sextortion
• State Department
• visas

Rubio restricts visas for sextortionists, cyber scammers

Cyber Scoop July 23, 2026

Rubio restricts visas for sextortionists, cyber scammers | CyberScoop...

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2 min read

• business email compromise (BEC)
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• Interpol
• investment scams
• money laundering
• Operation First Light
• romance scams
• Sextortion
• Social engineering

Interpol cybercrime crackdown nets 5,800 arrests across 97 countries

Cyber Scoop July 9, 2026

Interpol cybercrime crackdown nets 5,800 arrests across 97 countries...

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5 min read

• 764
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• Department of Justice (DOJ)
• FBI
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Justice Department
• prison
• Sextortion
• The Com
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
• Unit 221B

764 splinter group leader sentenced to 40 years in jail

Cyber Scoop July 9, 2026

764 splinter group leader sentenced to 40 years in...

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4 min read

• 764
• Arrest
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• Department of Justice (DOJ)
• extortion
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Government
• Justice Department
• Sextortion
• The Com
• Threats

Tennessee man linked to 764 accused of series of crimes against children dating back to 2022

Cyber Scoop May 29, 2026

Tennessee man linked to 764 accused of series of...

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3 min read

• Akira
• BianLian
• botnet
• business email compromise (BEC)
• critical infrastructure
• crypto
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• data breach
• data breaches
• extortion
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Financial services
• Government
• health care
• IC3
• INC
• investment scams
• Malware
• manufacturing
• Money
• phishing
• PLAY
• Qilin
• ransomware
• Research
• Sextortion
• SIM swapping
• Tech support scams
• Threats

Cybercrime losses jumped 26% to $20.9 billion in 2025

Cyber Scoop April 7, 2026

Cybercrime losses jumped 26% to $20.9 billion in 2025...

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4 min read

• Commentary
• compliance
• cybercrime
• Executive order
• office of management and budget
• op-ed
• phishing
• ransomware
• SBOM
• secure-by-design
• Sextortion
• software security
• supply chain

If consequences matter, they should apply to vendors, too

Cyber Scoop March 11, 2026

If consequences matter, they should apply to vendors, too...

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• Africa
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• Interpol
• Money
• Operation Contender 3.0
• romance scams
• Sextortion

Interpol operation disrupts romance scam and sextortion networks in Africa

Cyber Scoop September 29, 2025

Interpol operation disrupts romance scam and sextortion networks in...

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5 min read

• 764
• children
• crypto
• crypto crime
• cryptocurrency
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• doxxing
• extortion
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• hacker
• hackers
• ransomware
• Scattered Spider
• Sextortion
• The Com
• Threats
• Unit 221B

FBI alerts tie together threats of cybercrime, physical violence from The Com

Cyber Scoop July 28, 2025

FBI alerts tie together threats of cybercrime, physical violence...

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• 764
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• Department of Justice (DOJ)
• extortion
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Sextortion
• The Com
• Threats
• Unit 221B

Leaders of 764, global child sextortion group, arrested and charged

Cyber Scoop May 1, 2025

Leaders of 764, global child sextortion group, arrested and...

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4 min read

• critical infrastructure
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Government
• IC3
• ransomware
• Sextortion
• Threats

10 key numbers from the 2024 FBI IC3 report

Cyber Scoop April 23, 2025

10 key numbers from the 2024 FBI IC3 report...

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