ransomware

Recent headlines are testament to the growing popularity of ransomware attacks on businesses and consumers alike. In January, for example, Lincolnshire County Council saw its …

Organizations are unprepared for future strains of more sophisticated ransomware, according to the Cisco 2016 Midyear Cybersecurity Report. Fragile infrastructure, poor …

Solutionary found that companies in the healthcare industry had the most ransomware present, accounting for 88 percent of all ransomware detections in Q2. In addition, …

Today, the Dutch National Police, Europol, Intel Security and Kaspersky Lab launched the No More Ransom initiative, a new step in the cooperation between law enforcement and …

Palo Alto Networks’ researchers have created a decrypter for the variant of the PoshCoder ransomware that imitates the Locky ransomware. Dubbed PowerWare by the …

AVG malware analyst Jakub Kroustek has devised a decryptor for Bart ransomware, and the company has made it available for download (for free). Bart ransomware This particular …

If an approach works well, there is no reason to change tack, and the masters of the SoakSoak botnet are obviously of the same belief. A year and a half after they have been …

It’s official – cybercrime now has a bigger impact than any other form of crime in the UK. That’s the conclusion drawn by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and Strategic Cyber …

Administrators of WP and Joomla sites would do well to check for specific fake analytics code injected into their properties, as a ransomware delivery campaign taking …

Are you willing to sacrifice a dozen or so of your files in order to save the rest from the grasping hands of modern crypto-ransomware? I believe that the answer from most …

There is a phrase I am finding quite relevant lately. It is attributed to the philosopher George Santayana and it goes like this: “Those who cannot remember the past are …

Ransomware has grabbed mainstream media attention recently but it’s nothing new – in fact, its origins can be traced back to floppy disk times. Part of ransomware’s new found …