One of the most devastating types of cyberattack companies face today has been around for decades — and its perpetrators have ...

Protecting your company requires a multilayered approach that combines technology, employee awareness and proactive measures.

Dating back to the 1980s, ransomware is a form of malware used by cybercriminals to lock files on a person's computer and ...

Although ransomware attackers and small business owners differ in ethics and legality, they share similar operational ...

Dr Popp, originally from Ohio, was an evolutionary biologist and researcher whose work, much of which was carried out in ...

To help you work out which one you need, Avast has provided a detailed description of how each form of ransomware works, what extension you’ll see on the encrypted files, and an example of the ...

Hackers targeting people with this program demanded payment in either bitcoin or prepaid cash vouchers — it was an early example of how crypto became the currency of choice for ransomware attackers.

Ransomware has been around for 35 years, with the first known case involving the AIDS Trojan. This malware was spread using physical disks, pretending to be software to assess people’s risk of ...

A school district said that PowerSchool paid a ransom to prevent the attackers releasing data it accessed of students and ...