Ransomware payments fell by 35% year-over-year in 2024 amid a growing refusal by victims to pay demands, according to a new Chainalysis report. Ransomware groups received approximately $813.55m in ...

For much of the past year, the trail of destruction and mayhem left behind by ransomware hackers was on full display. Digital extortion gangs paralyzed hundreds of US pharmacies and clinics ...

The best ransomware protection helps protect against the threat of hackers breaching your networks or device, and then encrypting your data before forcing you to pay for a decryption key or face ...

Israeli spyware company NSO Group is currently in the crosshairs of a Polish government investigation into the deployment of the Pegasus spyware on thousands of opposition government devices.

Hackers are targeting vulnerable SimpleHelp RMM clients to create administrator accounts, drop backdoors, and potentially lay the groundwork for ransomware attacks. Cisco has fixed two critical ...

To top this all off, tool overload and siloed ... An analysis of HellCat and Morpheus ransomware operations has revealed that affiliates associated with the respective cybercrime entities are using ...

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4 file complaint with London's Met, alleging malware maker helped autocratic states violate their privacy ...