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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 ...

Index Engines, the leader in cyber resilience, today shared the latest ransomware trends from its CyberSense® Research Lab, which reveals threat actors continue to advance their approaches with more ...

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 ...

Forty-two minutes and 54 seconds: that's how quickly the median ransomware variant can encrypt and lock out a victim from 100,000 of their files. The data point came from Splunk's SURGe team, which ...

Even top-of-the-range antivirus software can’t restore encrypted data unless a certain decryption key has been developed for ...

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, ...

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 ...

Ransomware makes use of intermittent encryption to bypass detection algorithms Your email has been sent Most cybercriminals running ransomware operations are under the spotlight. Not only are they ...

Cybersecurity firm Profero has discovered that the RansomExx gang does not correctly lock Linux files during encryption, leading to potentially corrupted files. In a new report by Profero, Senior ...

The tactics used by the Royal ransomware group allow for fast and stealthy encryption and share similarities with the defunct Conti group. A new ransomware group dubbed Royal that formed earlier this ...