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 ...

Ransomware crews that once focused on locking files and demanding payment have shifted tactics. They now routinely steal ...

Ransomware is running rampant, but there are several ways individuals and admins can protect their Windows PCs. Here’s what ...

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 newly identified ransomware strain is accidentally destroying the very files it's supposed to hold for ransom. And for the victims who end up paying, they're getting nothing back. Cybersecurity firm ...

PCWorld reports Google Drive now automatically detects ransomware attacks and enables users to restore files to their pre-attack state without paying ransom demands. The enhanced security feature ...

Researchers have exploited a weakness in a particular strain of the Black Basta ransomware to release a decryptor for the malware, but it doesn't recover all of the files encrypted by the prolific ...

Ransomware attacks turn important files into encrypted gibberish. While paying the ransom might feel like the only way to ...

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 ...

Couldn't figure out a better forum for this. Hopefully soon I'll have some money to buy a low-end NAS that I can use for backups which I can make a little safer than a connected USB drive, in terms of ...

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 ...