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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...

Security researchers have discovered an interesting piece of malware that infects systems with either a cryptocurrency miner or ransomware...

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

Security researchers have spotted the first-ever ransomware exploiting Process Doppelgänging , a new fileless code injection technique th...

Ransomware has been around for a few years, but it has become an albatross around everyone's neck, targeting big businesses, hospital...

Remember how some cybercriminals shut down most of Washington D.C. police's security cameras for four days ahead of President Donald...

Romanian police have arrested five individuals suspected of infecting tens of thousands of computers across Europe and the United States ...

A massive malicious email campaign that stems from the world's largest spam botnet Necurs is spreading a new strain of ransomware at ...

Earlier this month a cybersecurity researcher shared details of a security loophole with The Hacker News that affects all versions of Mic...

A new widespread ransomware worm, known as " Bad Rabbit ," that hit over 200 major organisations, primarily in Russia and Ukraine ...

A new widespread ransomware attack is spreading like wildfire around Europe and has already affected over 200 major organisations, primar...

We don't really know the pain and cost of a downtime event unless we are directly touched. Be it a flood, electrical failure, ranso...

Remember NotPetya ? The Ransomware that shut down thousands of businesses, organisations and banks in Ukraine as well as different par...

DoubleLocker —as the name suggests, it locks device twice. Security researchers from Slovakia-based security software maker ESET have d...