Two rival ransomware groups are driving a new baseline of roughly 2,500 attacks per quarter as hackers make growing use of AI ...
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What is ransomware?

Cybercriminals regularly target small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with ransomware attacks. If they’re successful, they can lock you out of your networks and prevent you from accessing your ...
Why it matters: Ransomware is a type of malicious software that cybercriminals use to encrypt data or lock a victim's system, holding it hostage until a ransom is paid. The attackers typically demand ...
Research of incidents by Sophos finds that phishing, brute force attacks and other identity-based threats have surpassed ...
Attackers launched 600 million threats on Microsoft customers daily in the last year, according to the tech giant. The number of attempted ransomware attacks on Microsoft customers globally have grown ...
The federal government’s financial and operational stakes are at an all-time high. In its annual report, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center revealed that government facilities were the third ...
Russian-speaking threat actors accounted for at least 69% of all crypto proceeds linked to ransomware throughout the previous year, exceeding $500,000,000. This number is from TRM Labs, a blockchain ...
UnitedHealth has confirmed for the first time what types of medical and patient data were stolen in the massive Change Healthcare ransomware attack, stating that data breach notifications will be ...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, has issued a joint advisory warning of the ...
A Ukrainian national extradited from Ireland has pleaded guilty in a U.S. ransomware case tied to Conti, one of the most damaging cybercrime operations of ... Read More ...