Ransomware started out many years as scams where users were being tricked into paying fictitious fines for allegedly engaging in illegal online behavior or, in more serious cases, were blackmailed ...
It takes just five minutes for one of the most prolific forms of ransomware to encrypt 100,000 files, demonstrating how quickly ransomware can become a major cybersecurity crisis for the victim of an ...
The new ALPHV ransomware operation, aka BlackCat, launched last month and could be the most sophisticated ransomware of the year, with a highly-customizable feature set allowing for attacks on a wide ...
A new Onyx ransomware operation is destroying files larger than 2MB instead of encrypting them, preventing those files from being decrypted even if a ransom is paid. Last week, security researcher ...
SSE-C stands (well, stood) for “Server Side Encryption- Customer-provided keys”. It allowed you to provide an encryption key ...
A new ransomware strain is implementing a troubling but so far relatively rarely used technique to encrypt data in a target environment. Instead of encrypting files on endpoint systems like most ...
The tactics used by the Royal ransomware group allow for fast and stealthy encryption and share similarities with the defunct Conti group. A new ransomware group dubbed Royal that formed earlier this ...
Managed and extended detection and response (MDR and XDR) specialist Adlumin is attempting to help midmarket end-users lessen the impact of ransomware attacks by detecting and stopping them much ...
A new form of ransomware that has been spotted in the wild uses what researchers call "overkill" levels of encryption to hijack infected systems. This week, FortiGuard Labs said the new variant, known ...
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Good news for ransomware victims: Researchers have released a free tool on GitHub that they say can help victims of intermittent encryption attacks recover data from some types of partially encrypted ...
Move over viruses, step aside worms: Ransomware has the spotlight and isn't about to give it up. From taking down entire fuel pipelines to hijacking hospital networks, it's the cyberattack du jour.
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