Crypto was just the beginning. North Korea’s Lazarus Group is now embedding malware in trusted software, taking control of ...

A simple floppy disk in the then common 5.25 inch format with the inscription "AIDS Information – Introductory Diskette 2.0" ...

The first use of ransomware was identified in December 1989; an individual physically mailed out floppy disks purporting to ...

The prolific Clop ransomware gang has named dozens of corporate victims it claims to have hacked in recent weeks after exploiting a vulnerability in several popular enterprise file transfer ...

Ransomware attacks exposed the sensitive information of tens of millions of Americans in 2024. There were 610 confirmed ransomware attacks that compromised 166,426,225 records in the U.S. in 2024 ...

Mining is the process of adding and validating transaction records on the Bitcoin public blockchain ledger while securing uptime for the network. This is how the network persists without relying ...

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed an attack that involved a threat actor utilizing a Python-based backdoor to maintain persistent access to compromised endpoints and then leveraged this access ...

A new ransomware campaign targeting Amazon Web Services users by a threat actor known as Codefinger has been confirmed in a Jan. 13 threat intelligence report from Halcyon threat research and ...

A total ban on ransomware payments across the public sector might actually happen after the UK government opened a consultation on how to combat the trend of criminals locking up whole systems and ...

The UK government has proposed banning public sector and critical infrastructure organizations from making ransomware payments. The proposed payment ban been included in a Home Office-led consultation ...