U.S. officials said Tuesday that the FBI and its European partners infiltrated and seized control of a major global malware network used for more than 15 years to commit a gamut of online crimes ...

A virulent form of ransomware has now infected about quarter of a million Windows computers, according to a report by security researchers. Cryptolocker scrambles users' data and then demands a fee to ...

Consumers in the United States remain at risk from ransomware attacks, online scams, data breaches, and cross-border cyberthreats. The public should be vigilant of unsolicited contacts and take better ...

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Two Russian nationals stand trial in Paris in a case emblematic of the wave of ransomware attacks that France has seen for more than six years.

Cybercriminals are continuing to refine their ransomware tools and attack techniques. See Also: Virtual Cloud Ransomware Tabletop: Unpacking an Attack from Detection to Recovery Notably, the gang ...

A 36-year-old Yemeni national, who is believed to be the developer and primary operator of 'Black Kingdom' ransomware, has been indicted by the United States for conducting 1,500 attacks on Microsoft ...

Ransomware attacks have become ever more sophisticated. Attackers no longer just encrypt data – they threaten to expose sensitive data, though double extortion and triple extortion attacks. And ...

Popular online tools that convert '.pdf,' '.doc' and '.jpg' files to a different format are being mimicked by scammers who offer similar services but instead maliciously install malware and ransomware ...

Companies now face two kinds of liabilities from ransomware: business costs, and civil liability to the FTC and perhaps private litigants. Ransomware" is malicious software that enables attackers to ...