Nitrogen ransomware’s ESXi encryptor corrupts its own public key, making file recovery impossible, even if victims pay.

Most industry analyst firms conclude that between 80-90 percent of network traffic is encrypted today. Jeff Costlow, CISO at ExtraHop, explains why this might not be a good thing. Strong encryption is ...

Quantum decryption may be a decade or more away, but healthcare organizations should take steps now to protect patient data.

Users who have had their files encrypted by any version of the Bart ransomware program are in luck: Antivirus vendor Bitdefender has just released a free decryption tool. The Bart ransomware appeared ...

Thousands of ransomware victims may finally get some long-awaited relief. New Zealand-based security company Emsisoft has built a set of decryption tools for Stop, a family of ransomware that includes ...

The developer behind the original Petya ransomware has provided a tool to help minimize the damage inflicted on infected PCs. It is in the form of a master decryption key to release the files held ...

Researchers have discovered that TeslaCrypt contains an inherent design flaw which has granted an avenue for the development of free decryption tools. Security researcher Lawrence Abrams explained in ...

Hackers use ransomware to go after every industry, charging as much money as they can to return access to a victim's files. It’s a lucrative business to be in. In the first six months of 2023, ...

A new ransomware strain that entered the scene last year has poorly designed code and uses Hebrew language that might be a ...

Many victims of the Kaseya ransomware attack are still in the process of recovering but one victim is facing a particularly difficult issue. Mike Hamilton, former CISO of Seattle and now CISO of ...

‘Threat groups’ could target valuable secrets with aim of unlocking them when computing power allows Chinese hackers could target heavily encrypted datasets such as weapon designs or details of ...