Baron Martin is linked to extremist online networks 764 and CVLT.

Documents reviewed by CyberScoop show that law enforcement is tracking these violent criminal groups’ use of malicious cyber tools to cause harm to children.

The group, along with others, targeted thousands of victims across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, prosecutors allege.

Heather Barnhart, SANS Institute fellow and digital forensics expert

The FBI bulletin confirms what many cybercrime researchers may have already feared: Sextortion scams are prevalent, and profitable.

The threat intelligence company Digital Shadows examined 790,000 "sextortion" attempts sent to 89,000 email recipients to find that digital con artists typically build their bogus stories on…