Honor among thieves - extortion is fine, but no juveniles, please A ransomware crew that posted pictures and addresses of preschool children in an effort to get a payday has now deleted the data, apparently under pressure from other criminals....

Proof of life? Or an active social media presence? Criminals are altering social media and other publicly available images of people to use as fake proof of life photos in "virtual kidnapping" and extortion scams, the FBI warned on Friday....