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Ransomware

200 articles

  • Ransomware

Group policies enable ransomware spread

LockBit 2.0 ransomware can spread across a local network through group policies created on a hijacked domain controller.

  • Hugh Aver

  • July 30, 2021

Ireland's healthcare service (Health Service Executive) shut down its servers after being hit by "very sophisticated" ransomware attack
  • Ransomware

Irish health service hit by ransomware

A ransomware attack forced Ireland’s healthcare service to shut down its servers. Here’s what we know so far.

  • Kaspersky Team

  • May 14, 2021

  • Ransomware

How Colonial Pipeline managed its ransomware attack

Should you contact authorities about ransomware?

  • Nikolay Pankov

  • May 12, 2021

  • Ransomware

Ransomware attacks on healthcare

In the face of high-profile ransomware attacks on healthcare institutions, here’s how to protect your business from the threat.

  • Hugh Aver

  • April 28, 2021

Top 5 most dangerous ransomware in 2021
  • Ransomware

Corporation hunters: Top 5 ransomware groups

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

  • Kaspersky Team

  • April 21, 2021

  • Ransomware

Five signs ransomware is becoming an industry

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.

  • Roman Dedenok

  • April 16, 2021

How ransomware has grown from simplistic screen blockers into monsters paralyzing airports and shipping companies
  • Ransomware

The ransomware saga

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

  • Leonid Grustniy

  • April 7, 2021

  • Ransomware

Ransomware leverage

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

  • Roman Dedenok

  • April 5, 2021

  • Ransomware

Ransomware in a virtual environment

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

  • Hugh Aver

  • March 26, 2021

  • Ransomware

Ransom: To pay nothing or not to pay? That is the question

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

  • Eugene Kaspersky

  • March 8, 2021

  • Ransomware

Ransomware, and then some

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

  • Hugh Aver

  • March 5, 2021

How to minimize the consequences of a corporate ransomware attack
  • Ransomware

So, you’ve been encrypted

How to minimize the consequences of a corporate ransomware attack.

  • Chris Connell

  • February 18, 2021

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

Cyberpunk 2021: CD Projekt attacked by ransomware gang

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

  • Kaspersky Team

  • February 9, 2021

  • Ransomware

Get a free decryptor for Fonix ransomware

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

  • Hugh Aver

  • February 3, 2021

  • RC3

Ransomware’s cryptofootprint

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

  • Nikolay Pankov

  • January 20, 2021

Ransomware disguised as an Android version of Cyberpunk 2077
  • gamers

Malware wrapped in Cyberpunk 2077

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

  • Tatyana Shishkova

  • December 23, 2020

Why backups aren’t enough in the fight against ransomware
  • Ransomware

Why backups aren’t enough

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

  • Alexander Moiseev

  • December 17, 2020

  • Ransomware

A structured approach to ransomware protection

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

  • Kailash Singh

  • November 19, 2020

  • Ransomware

Ransomware 2020

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

  • Hugh Aver

  • November 9, 2020

  • Ransomware

Analysis of WastedLocker targeted ransomware

Our experts’ detailed analysis of the prime suspect in the ransomware attack on Garmin.

  • Kaspersky Team

  • July 31, 2020

  • Ransomware

Lazarus experiments with new ransomware

The Lazarus cybercrime group uses traditional APT techniques to spread VHD ransomware.

  • Nikolay Pankov

  • July 28, 2020

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