Today a new Locky Ransomware variant was discovered by security researcher Derek Knight and then quickly followed by Stormshield malware analyst coldshell that switches to the .ykcol extension for ...

Just like Locky of old, new variants of the Jaff ransomware continue to be pumped out. This is the case with a new version being this week that uses the .sVn extension for encrypted files. On ...

Ransomware with apparent links to a Dridex botnet affiliate has been spotted attempting to infect at least 450,000 computer users. Brandon Levene, Micah Yates, and Rob Downs, all security researchers ...

The Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a nonprofit organization that works to share threat intelligence, issued an alert Oct. 1 ...

Internet experts call it ransomware, a very particular type of virus that infects computers and restricts users’ access to their files or threatens the permanent destruction of their information ...

The cybercriminal group known as LockBit has released an improved 5.0 version of its ransomware (LockBit 5.0), which is ...

Trend Micro highlighted the new LockBit version’s improved technical improvements and cross-platform functionality compared ...

Thousands of ransomware victims may finally get some long-awaited relief. New Zealand-based security company Emsisoft has built a set of decryption tools for Stop, a family of ransomware that includes ...

Ransomware can strike any industry, from logistics and media companies to non-profit organizations and governments. Even hospitals are targets for ransomware, holding data and lives hostage.

People who have fallen victim to FortuneCrypt, Yatron, WannaCryFake or Avest ransomware should now be able to retrieve their encrypted files without giving into the extortion demands of cyber ...

Security researchers have released tools this week that could help users recover files encrypted by two relatively new ransomware threats: Bart and PowerWare. PowerWare, also known as PoshCoder, was ...