The Sobering Truth For 21% Of Ransom Payers. Of the 960 organizations covered in the Veeam 2023 Ransomware Trends Report, that paid a ransom, 201 of them (21%) were still unable to recover their ...

In early November, the notorious ALPHV ransomware gang, also known as BlackCat, attempted a first-of-its-kind extortion tactic: weaponizing the U.S. government’s new data breach disclosure rules ...

Two new studies suggest that ransomware isn't the lucrative, enterprise-scale gotcha it used to be. Profits to attackers' wallets, and the percentage of victims paying, fell dramatically in 2022 ...

Apple declined to comment on the findings. LockBit is a Russia-based ransomware gang that emerged at the end of 2019. The group is most known for its sheer volume of attacks and for appearing well ...

The MortalKombat ransomware is typically spread via phishing emails in which the attackers impersonate CoinPayments, a legitimate global cryptocurrency payment gateway. Once installed on a victim ...

Ransomware gained prominence in the mid-2000s when cybercriminals started demanding ransom from victims by locking access to their services and systems. In the early 2010s, cyberattackers ...

Security threats like malware, ransomware and hacking gangs are always evolving. This special report explains what you need to focus on next. Read now Major ransomware attacks like those on ...

Ransomware not only brings economic loss, but represents the complexity of the cyber domain, where attacks can be made for economic, political, or military gains.

RANSOMWARE ATTACKS ONLY INVOLVE A HANDFUL OF STEPS. Per Verizon’s event chain data describing the flow of an attack, a vast majority of breaches only involve three steps.

As the fight against ransomware slogs on, security experts warn of a potential escalation to “real-world violence.” But recent police crackdowns are successfully disrupting the cybercriminal ...

What you should know about the MOVEit ransomware attack. June 16, 2023. 4 min. The BBC was among the victims of the MOVEit hack. (Henry Nicholls/Reuters) By Joseph Menn.