Good news for many victims of WannaCry: Free tools can be used to decrypt some PCs that were forcibly encrypted by the ransomware, providing the prime numbers used to build the crypto keys remain in ...

A ransomware variant favored by a pro-Russia hacktivist group is back on the scene with a new version that has a fatal flaw — it keeps artifacts that allow victims to decrypt their files. VolkLocker ...

Bitdefender has released a decryptor for the 'ShrinkLocker' ransomware strain, which uses Windows' built-in BitLocker drive encryption tool to lock victim's files. Discovered in May 2024 by ...

AttackIQ has released a new attack graph that emulates the behaviors of LokiLocker ransomware, a .NET based strain active since at least mid-August 2021. The malware combines defense evasion and ...

Why encrypted backups may fail in an AI-driven ransomware era ...

Index Engines, the leader in cyber resilience, today shared the latest ransomware trends from its CyberSense® Research Lab, ...

AttackIQ has released a new attack graph that emulates the behaviors exhibited by BlackByte ransomware, a strain operated ...

Victims of a destructive form of ransomware, which fails to unlock files even if the ransom is paid, can now retrieve their files for free with a new file decryptor released by security researchers.

A decryptor for the FunkSec ransomware has been developed and made avaliable to download for free by researchers at antivirus provider Avast. Ladislav Zezul, a malware researcher at Avast’s parent ...

For years, organizations treated ransomware as a technical threat, but that mindset is now dangerously outdated as ransomware ...

Cybercriminals moved sharply away from encryption-based schemes in 2025, with data theft and extortion overtaking traditional ...