You probably know better than to click on links that download unknown files onto your computer. It turns out that uploading files can get you into trouble, too. Today ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. “Anubis is an emerging ransomware-as-a-service group that adds ...

Couldn't figure out a better forum for this. Hopefully soon I'll have some money to buy a low-end NAS that I can use for backups which I can make a little safer than a connected USB drive, in terms of ...

Google is adding ransomware detection to its Drive for desktop utility. The feature uses AI to detect likely attacks and stop syncing encrypted files. It's available as a beta release today for ...

The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents ...

The new Akira ransomware operation has slowly been building a list of victims as they breach corporate networks worldwide, encrypt files, and then demand million-dollar ransoms. Launched in March 2023 ...

The Anubis ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operator has developed a novel dual threat capability to increase pressure on victims. Trend Micro researchers discovered a “wipe mode” in the ransomware ...

An independent family-owned pharmacy in Cape Town was recently spared a devastating start to the year thanks to the diligence ...

The use of zero-day and one-day vulnerabilities has led to a 143% increase in total ransomware victims between Q1 2022 and Q1 2023, according to new research from cloud security vendor Akamai. The ...

From LockBit 3.0 to DragonForce, these are the most active or sophisticated ransomware groups that CISOs want to watch out for. The ransomware landscape has seen a lot of fragmentation over the past ...

A malicious extension with basic ransomware capabilities seemingly created with the help of AI, has been published on Microsoft's official VS Code marketplace. Named susvsex and published by ...

This research was completed in 2023 and received partial funding from US National Science Foundation, Cyber Florida, and Google ASPIRE. The views expressed are those of the author only, not of the ...