Pondurance, the leading provider of managed detection and response (MDR) cybersecurity services designed to minimize breach risk for mid-market organizations, today announced the launch of RansomSnare ...

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 ...

A new Osiris ransomware exploits fresh tactics to infect systems, encrypt files, and evade detection, triggering urgent ...

It takes just five minutes for one of the most prolific forms of ransomware to encrypt 100,000 files, demonstrating how quickly ransomware can become a major cybersecurity crisis for the victim of an ...

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, ...

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 ...

Security researchers are warning of a new strain of the Locky ransomware — the malware responsible for crippling networks at Methodist Hospital in Henderson, Ky., and King’s Daughters’ Health in ...

Network defenders have just 43 minutes to mitigate ransomware attacks once encryption has begun, a new study from Splunk has warned. The security monitoring and data analytics vendor evaluated the ...

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 ...

Police tricked a ransomware gang into handing over decryption keys, providing victims with the ability to unlock their encrypted data for free. Working alongside cybersecurity company Responders.NU, ...

A file-encrypting ransomware program called CryptoWall infected over 600,000 computer systems in the past six months and held 5 billion files hostage, earning its creators more than $1 million, ...

Victims of the MegaCortex ransomware can now recover their encrypted files for free, thanks to the release of a new file decryptor. The free decryptor was built by cybersecurity firm Bitdefender and ...