Ransomware

The most active groups targeting companies, encrypting data, and demanding ransom.

With a website that looks like it could represent an online service provider, DarkSide Leaks makes us wonder what cybercriminals’ other PR tricks might be.

Ransomware, once represented by screen blockers that were almost cute, has come of age.

Ransomware operators sometimes resort to rather unconventional threats to get their victims to pay.

Several cybercriminal groups have exploited vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi to infect computers with ransomware.

Three reasons not to pay cyber-extortionists — and what to do if you get hit.

RTM group attacks victims with ransomware, a banking Trojan, and remote-access tools.

How to minimize the consequences of a corporate ransomware attack.

CD Projekt confirms attack on internal systems. Hackers claim to have downloaded Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 source code, and demand ransom.

When the creators of Fonix ransomware abandoned their malicious ways and published the master key, we made a decryptor out of it.

Cybercriminals made off with more than $16 million from ransomware from 2016 to 2017.

Cybercriminals are disguising ransomware as a beta version of Cyberpunk 2077 for Android.

Why backing up is good but not enough when it comes to staying safe from ransomware.

To counter modern ransomware threats, you need more than just endpoint protection.

Among its other troubles, 2020 will be remembered as a year of explosive growth in ransomware infections.

Jeff and Dave discuss COVID-related scams in the UK, a Massachusetts school system hit with ransomware, and more.

Jeff and Dave talk about US election worries, Google coming under fire for children’s privacy, another hospital hit by ransomware, plus much more.

On this episode of the Kaspersky podcast, Jeff and Dave take a look at the film The Social Dilemma, Facebook’s standoff with Ireland, and more.

On this episode of the podcast, Dave and Jeff discuss sharing your password on a flipchart for everyone to see, Uber’s 2016 breach cover-up, ransomware hitting college, and more.

On this episode of the podcast, Dave and Jeff discuss ransomware hitting Jack Daniel’s, a scam targeting tea time, dropshipping and more.

In this episode of the podcast, Dave and Jeff discuss Zoom bombings in court, Canon hit by ransomware, a US bounty for election interference, and more.