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 ...

Recently, I was at a private event on security by design. I explained that Microsoft could fix ransomware tomorrow, and was surprised that the otherwise well-informed people I was speaking to hadn't ...

Cybersecurity firm Avast has released a free decryptor for the Akira ransomware that can help victims recover their data without paying the crooks any money. Akira first appeared in March 2023 and ...

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 ...

Good news for ransomware victims: Researchers have released a free tool on GitHub that they say can help victims of intermittent encryption attacks recover data from some types of partially encrypted ...

WTF?! Being affected by a dangerous ransomware operation is bad enough, but at least you might have a chance to recover your files somehow. A recently discovered ransomware strain is making things ...

Cybercrooks have hit on a new twist to their aggressive marketing of fake security software, and are duping users into downloading a file utility that holds users’ data for ransom, security ...

Yuen Pin Yeap is CEO at NeuShield. Yuen Pin is an experienced leader with a long track record of creating innovative security solutions. Hackers continue to demonstrate their ingenuity and ...

Managed and extended detection and response (MDR and XDR) specialist Adlumin is attempting to help midmarket end-users lessen the impact of ransomware attacks by detecting and stopping them much ...

The Interlock ransomware gang now uses ClickFix attacks that impersonate IT tools to breach corporate networks and deploy file-encrypting malware on devices. ClickFix is a social engineering tactic ...

Ransomware looked like it was on the decline in 2022, but a recent report by Chainalysis showed a significant rebound in 2023 — so much so that it was the most profitable year for ransomware seen so ...