Businesses should prioritize securing one type of technology in particular, the security firm Arctic Wolf said in a new ...

Ransomware groups are back at encrypting victim data for extortion, in addition to exfiltrating it, increasing chances of ...

Gang walks away with nothing, victims are left with irreparable hypervisors Cybersecurity experts usually advise victims against paying ransomware crooks, but that advice goes double for those who ...

A new ransomware gang called 0APT has attracted attention, but many of its victims may not even be real, and its operators are being accused of over-egging their criminal pudding.

Ransomware gangs now frequently threaten physical violence against employees and their families as a way to force victim organizations into paying their demands.… According to a survey of 1,500 ...

Social engineering and zero-day vulnerability weaponization are getting faster and easier, two information sharing and ...

When Microsoft patched a vulnerability last summer that allowed threat actors to use Windows’ shortcut (.lnk) files in ...

The operators of DragonForce, a ransomware-as-a-service outfit that first surfaced in 2023, appear to be drawing heavily from the organized crime playbook, creating a cartel and attempting to bring ...

While overall ransomware attack numbers remained steady, higher education institutions drove a sharp rise in exposed records, fueled in part by third-party software vulnerabilities.

When corporate data is exposed on a dedicated leak site, the consequences linger long after the attack fades from the news cycle.

Update, Dec. 21, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 20, now includes news of criminal charges filed against the suspected developer of the LockBit ransomware by the U.S. Department of Justice ...

Ransomware operators are hosting and delivering malicious payloads at scale by abusing virtual machines (VMs) provisioned by ...