You probably know better than to click on links that download unknown files onto your computer. It turns out that uploading files can get you into trouble, too. Today ...

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.

Introduction As the world is more and more switched to the availability of the internet, web browsers act as portals to numerous services and data. However, such conveniences mean the existence of ...

FIU cybersecurity researchers warn websites that request access to your files might be able to bypass antivirus software and carry out major ransomware attacks. Free photo editors, tax document ...

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 ...

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The mother of a student whose confidential sexual assault complaint was released online stands outside the Minneapolis Public Schools offices, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Minneapolis. Ransomware gangs ...

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 ...

A new 'White Phoenix' ransomware decryptor allows victims to partially recover files encrypted by ransomware strains that use intermittent encryption. Intermittent encryption is a strategy employed by ...

A team of malware developers is preparing to sell a new ransomware program that encrypts files on infected computers and asks victims for money to recover them, according to a volunteer group of ...

We live in the age of ransomware. This persistent threat remains top of mind for CEOs, their boards, CIOs, CISOs and everyone in the line of fire in IT. Yet we still get so much wrong about ransomware ...

The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents ...