https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/02/fbi-ransomware-private-financial-extort/

The FBI has warned that ransomware groups are targeting companies involved in “significant, time-sensitive financial events,” like mergers and acquisitions, in an effort to coerce victims into paying their ransom demands.

In an advisory to private companies this week, the FBI said that cybercriminals often try to find non-public information when targeting companies involved in major financial events, which cybercriminals can threaten to publish if they don’t pay the ransom demand.