Kaspersky Lab’s researchers have discovered PetrWrap, a new malware family that exploits the original Petya ransomware module, distributed through a Ransomware-as-a-Service…
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Smartphones, watches, televisions and fitness trackers could be used to hold people to ransom over personal data, cyber security experts…
The National Crime Agency and National Cyber Security Centre have launched a report into ‘The cyber threat to UK businesses’…
Last year prominent companies like Seagate and Snapchat felt the devastating impact of W-2 phishing schemes. Now, according to an alert from the IRS…
There have been a handful of wiper malware attacks in the wild in the last decade with Shamoon’s destruction of…
Following the news that TorrentLocke, a ransomware variant which has been relatively inactive for almost two years, is back, and this…
Security researchers have spotted a new variant of the TorrentLocker ransomware that has the ability to spread through shared documents on the…
Hundreds of MySQL databases have been hit in ransomware attacks, which were described as “an evolution of the MongoDB ransomware attacks,” according to…
Cybersecurity researchers have revealed the development of a new, custom form of ransomware targeting industrial systems (SCADA). The malware and subsequent attack…
While organizations of all sizes can save a lot of time and money these days thanks to technology, not to…