The No More Ransom project, a coalition of law enforcement and security companies, has expanded with 30 new members and added 32 new decryption tools for various ransomware variants. The project, ...

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 ...

Gamers come in all ages and from all walks of life; they may or may not have files they feel are irreplaceable enough as to be tempted to pay a ransom to get those files decrypted. But what if it was ...

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 ...

Hackers use ransomware to go after every industry, charging as much money as they can to return access to a victim's files. It’s a lucrative business to be in. In the first six months of 2023, ...

The Justice Department (DOJ) made moves to disrupt BlackCat, a major ransomware group that has targeted schools, health care, local governments and other U.S. victims. The DOJ said it seized several ...

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 ...

Cybercriminals are becoming more aggressive in their effort to maximize disruption and compel the payment of ransom demands, and now there’s a new extortion tactic in play. In early November, the ...

Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender has released a free decryption tool for MortalKombat, a months-old strain of ransomware targeting predominantly cryptocurrency users. MortalKombat, named after ...

Security experts have devised a method that allows users to recover data from computers infected with the Petya ransomware program without paying money to cybercriminals. Petya appeared on researchers ...