The scourge of ransomware in the U.S. is “as bad as it has ever been,” with 2,207 governments, hospitals, and schools victimized by hackers in 2023, according to a new survey by the cybersecurity ...

If 2025 was meant to be the year ransomware started dying, nobody appears to have told the attackers.… In its 2025 State of Ransomware in the US report, security firm Emsisoft says ransomware attacks ...

According to a new report from cybersecurity firm Emsisoft, ransomware attacks between 2016 and 2021 can be attributed to at least one real-world death per month. While it’s no secret that malware ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Security experts have begun the year in combative mood after a leading security vendor called on the US government to ban ransomware payments. Noted for its work in ransomware decryption, Emsisoft ...