The Hacker News — Latest Cyber Security News: ransomware

THIS WEEK IN THE IRONIC NEWS: DDS Safe, an online cloud-based data backup system that hundreds of dental practice offices across the Un...

The threat of ransomware is becoming more prevalent and severe as attackers' focus has now moved beyond computers to smartphones and ...

Yesterday, some residents of Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa, were left without electricity after the city's power comp...

A new ransomware family has been found targeting Linux-based Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices made by Taiwan-based QNAP Systems and ...

In the last two weeks, Florida has paid more than $1.1 million in bitcoin to cybercriminals to recover encrypted files from two separate r...

For the second time in just over a year, the city of Baltimore has been hit by a ransomware attack, affecting its computer network and fo...

Taking advantage of newly disclosed and even patched vulnerabilities has become common among cybercriminals, which makes it one of the pr...

Photo by Terje Pedersen / NTB scanpix One of the world's largest producers of aluminum has been forced to shut down several of its ...

It's not at all surprising that downloading movies and software from the torrent network could infect your computer with malware, but it...

Security researchers have discovered two separate malware campaigns, one of which is distributing the Ursnif data-stealing trojan and th...

If your computer has been infected with PyLocky Ransomware and you are searching for a free ransomware decryption tool to unlock or decryp...

"Pay $20,000 worth of bitcoin, or a bomb will detonate in your building" A massive number of businesses, schools, government o...

A new piece of ransomware is spreading rapidly across China that has already infected more than 100,000 computers in the last four days as...

The Department of Justice announced Wednesday charges against two Iranian nationals for their involvement in creating and deploying the n...

Windows and Linux users need to beware, as an all-in-one, destructive malware strain has been discovered in the wild that features multipl...

Bristol Airport has blamed a ransomware attack for causing a blackout of flight information screens for two days over the weekend. The ai...

A former Microsoft network engineer who was charged in April this year has now been sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guil...

Ransomware has become a multimillion-dollar black market business for cybercriminals, and SamSam being a great example. New research revea...

Almost three years after the arrest of two young Dutch brothers, who pleaded guilty to their involvement in creating and distributing Coin...