German security software company G DATA has released a vaccine that will block STOP Ransomware from encrypting victims' files after infection. "This tool does not prevent the infection itself. STOP ...

Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender has released a free decryption tool for MortalKombat, a months-old strain of ransomware targeting predominantly cryptocurrency users. MortalKombat, named after ...

On June 3, Spain-based telecommunications conglomerate, Telefónica, released a free tool to recover data encrypted by the VCryptor ransomware. The tool, VCrypt Decryptor, was created as part of an ...

Victims of a recently uncovered form of ransomware are being warned not to pay the ransom demand, simply because the ransomware isn't able to decrypt files – it just destroys them instead. Coded in ...

A new and targeted ransomware named AgeLocker utilizes the 'Age' encryption tool created by a Google employee to encrypt victim's files. Yesterday, a consultant created a topic in the BleepingComputer ...

Victims of the widespread TeslaCrypt ransomware are in luck: Security researchers have created a tool that can decrypt files affected by recent versions of the malicious program. Surprisingly, the ...

It takes just five minutes for one of the most prolific forms of ransomware to encrypt 100,000 files, demonstrating how quickly ransomware can become a major cybersecurity crisis for the victim of an ...

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Ransomware groups have always taken a more-is-more approach. If a victim pays a ransom and then goes back to business as usual—hit them again. Or don't just encrypt a target's systems; steal their ...

The Ragnarok ransomware gang has shut down its operations and wiped its leak site clean without providing a reason behind the decision. More importantly, the ransomware gang has left behind a master ...

Ransomware makes use of intermittent encryption to bypass detection algorithms Your email has been sent Most cybercriminals running ransomware operations are under the spotlight. Not only are they ...

Security researchers at Splunk Inc. have studied how quickly common forms of ransomware can encrypt 100,000 files, and the results are disturbing for companies trying to respond and mitigate attacks.