How ransomware works At its heart, ransomware mimics the age old crime of kidnapping: someone takes something you value, and in order to try to get it back, you have to pay up. For it to work ...

Last year alone in the U.S., ransomware gangs hit more than 100 federal, state and municipal agencies, upwards of 500 health care centers, 1,680 educational institutions and untold thousands of ...

The FBI is cracking down on ransomware attacks, but schools have been cyber criminals' big targets of late. How ransomware works, and why school networks are suddenly looking like a lucrative target.

Earlier this year, the U.S. government imposed sanctions against Russian national Mikhail Matveev, an FBI most-wanted cybercriminal, who authorities accuse of being a “prolific ransomware ...

The crippling business damage is proportional to the ransomware campaign duration—specifically the midgame duration, as shown in the diagram.

Firewalls and VPNs are being used as a point of entry for Iranian state-sponsored hackers, tracked as Pioneer Kitten, looking to gain access to American schools, banks, hospitals, defense sector ...

The fastest ransomware has been identified by Check Point researchers. Here's what they revealed about the new Rorschach ransomware.

Cybersecurity investigators worry ransomware attacks may worsen as young, native-English speaking hackers in the U.S., U.K. and Canada team up with Russian hackers.

Historically, ransomware works by infecting a victim’s computer and encrypting all the files with a key known only by the threat actors behind the ransomware.