In the seemingly never-ending battle against cybercriminals, the relentless evolution of ransomware has posed unprecedented challenges to individuals, businesses, and cybersecurity experts alike.

Ransomware attackers targeting a Fortune 100 company in the finance sector used a new malware strain, dubbed PDFSider, to deliver malicious payloads on Windows systems.

An operational security failure allowed researchers to recover data that the INC ransomware gang stole from a dozen U.S.

A joint investigation by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center and Microsoft Security Response Center found that a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows Common Log File System had been exploited by ...

More than one ransomware actor appears to have exploited a recently disclosed Windows privilege escalation bug before Microsoft issued a patch for it in its April 2025 security update. When it ...

Windows endpoint management company Aiden Technologies Inc. today announced the launch of AidenRescue, a new solution for recovering and rebuilding Windows devices after a ransomware attack or other ...

Microsoft's blog recently gave a firm warning: unsupported systems aren't just outdated, they're unprotected. That message targets anyone still using Windows 10, and it's serious. In Microsoft's ...

The cybercriminal group known as LockBit has released an improved 5.0 version of its ransomware (LockBit 5.0), which is “significantly more dangerous,” warns Trend Micro. The malware now attacks ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, July 28, 2025: This story, originally published on ...

The Quilin ransomware group has attacked Windows hosts using a Linux-based binary in a cross-platform attack that can evade Windows-centric detections and security solutions, including conventional ...