{"id":12871,"date":"2026-05-15T02:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/when-ransomware-gets-physical-cybercriminals-turn-to-threats-of-violence\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T02:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:03:33","slug":"when-ransomware-gets-physical-cybercriminals-turn-to-threats-of-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/when-ransomware-gets-physical-cybercriminals-turn-to-threats-of-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"When ransomware gets physical: cybercriminals turn to threats of violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    When ransomware gets physical: cybercriminals turn to threats of violence<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Pay up, or we&#8217;ll pay someone to pay you a visit. Cybercrime gangs are increasingly turning to real-world threats &#8211; and even hiring local muscle to deliver the message.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/ransomware-physical-threats-violence\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When ransomware gets physical: cybercriminals turn to threats of violence Pay up, or we&#8217;ll pay someone to pay you a visit. Cybercrime gangs are increasingly turning to real-world threats &#8211; and even hiring local muscle to deliver the message. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Graham Cluley Go to grahamcluley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,154,54,155,164,83,231,486],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-12871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-breach","category-data-loss","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-law-order","category-privacy","category-ransomware","category-security-threats","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}