The cybersecurity community has struck a fresh blow against ransomware with the release of a new tool which decrypts files locked through the Petya ransomware family. The spread of ransomware through ...

A Massachusetts police department has fallen victim to a scam in which hackers encrypt the department's files and demand a ransom to unlock them.Tewksbury Chief Timothy Sheehan tells The Boston Globe ...

[Update]: An new version of the free decryption tool for GandCrab ransomware is available. Check the update note below. A free file decryption tool is available for users whose computers got infected ...

Cisco released a decryption utility that unlocks files encrypted by all four versions of TeslaCrypt; Kaspersky Lab has also published a similar decryptor. For close to a month, the master encryption ...

Until today, Microsoft Windows users who’ve been unfortunate enough to have the personal files on their computer encrypted and held for ransom by a nasty strain of malware called CryptoLocker have ...

The cost of ransomware reached close to $1 billion in 2016, and it's not hard to see why. The malware family, which targets everything from Windows to Mac machines, executes procedures to encrypt ...

The Rokku Ransomware is a new infection currently being spread in email attachments. When infected, a victim's data files will be encrypted and then ransomed back for .24 bitcoins or approximately ...

TEWKSBURY, Mass. (AP) – A Massachusetts police department has fallen victim to a scam in which hackers encrypt the department’s files and demand a ransom to ...

TEWKSBURY — A Massachusetts police department has fallen victim to a scam in which hackers encrypt the department's files and demand a ransom to unlock them ...