The British government has announced plans to move forward with a law that would bar public organizations from paying off ...

Britain plans to ban public sector bodies and operators of critical national infrastructure, including the state-run health ...

The WannaCry ransomware attack compromised the systems of Russian banks in some isolated cases, the Russian central bank said on Friday in the first official acknowledgement by Moscow that the virus ...

The creators of WannaCry are still unknown and the malware is continuing to spread around the world. So far, over $50,000 has been paid into the Bitcoin wallet used to collect ransoms. The money ...

As businesses deal with the fallout from the WannaCry virus, a cyberattack that hit 200,000 victims in 150 countries, WSJ Pro's cybersecurity writer Kate Fazzini talks about how ransomware is on ...

In the wake of the destructive “WannaCry” Internet worm that struck hundreds of thousands of Internet users and has been called the biggest cyberattack in history, Emergency Reporting ...

I’m looking at you, British tabloids, because it was mean, stupid and very irresponsible to dox the guy who discovered the first WannaCry ransomware kill switch and thereby stopped thousands of ...

ITASCA, Ill., May 15, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As the fallout from the #WannaCry ransomware attack continues to reverberate around the world, a new report by software vulnerability and patch ...

Computers in some 150 countries across the world were hit this May by a crippling cyberattack. The malware was called WannaCry, and the White House now says North Korea was behind it. NPR's Elise ...

A ransomware attack that began in Europe on Friday is lingering — and hitting new targets in Japan and China. The WannaCry software has locked thousands of computers in more than 150 countries ...