A virulent form of ransomware has now infected about quarter of a million Windows computers, according to a report by security researchers. Cryptolocker scrambles users' data and then demands a fee to ...

Imagine that in a few days, or maybe a few years, the United States suffers an unprecedented ransomware attack. And then it gets worse. TurboHax doesn’t just ransom your information, it executes ...

In addition to deploying DragonForce ransomware across "multiple" endpoints, the criminals also stole sensitive data and used double-extortion tactics to pressure victims into paying the ransom, ...

The U.S. government has indicted Russian national Rustam Rafailevich Gallyamov, the leader of the Qakbot botnet malware operation that compromised over 700,000 computers and enabled ransomware attacks ...

Ransomware attacks have become ever more sophisticated. Attackers no longer just encrypt data – they threaten to expose sensitive data, though double extortion and triple extortion attacks. And ...

The first thing worth knowing about the first ever ransomware locker is that its use was apparently motivated by revenge rather than outright criminality. The second thing worth knowing is that there ...

A 36-year-old Yemeni national, who is believed to be the developer and primary operator of 'Black Kingdom' ransomware, has been indicted by the United States for conducting 1,500 attacks on Microsoft ...

Companies now face two kinds of liabilities from ransomware: business costs, and civil liability to the FTC and perhaps private litigants. Ransomware" is malicious software that enables attackers to ...