The community leadership award for efforts to decrypt ransomware as a public service was given to Michael Gillespie. This special award, presented on behalf of the Director of the FBI,…
Cyber Security is a billion-dollar industry global today with an estimated market value of $137.8 billion. In the next five years, the market value is expected to increase by more…
A Japanese teen has been arrested for allegedly creating malware that steals private keys of cryptocurrency wallets. The 17-year-old boy is suspected of using the malware for stealing funds from…
AllScripts — an electronic healthcare record (EHR) — was recently hit by a ransomware named SamSam. The website of the company was hit on January 18 after two data centers…
Ransomware criminals most often attacks large sized business. The malicious code does not sneak into the computer like Trojan or malware. Instead, it bursts into your PC and threatens to…
Experts at ESET research have found that the BitPaymer ransomware that had hit Scottish hospitals last year was made by the same developers who introducedDridex in 2014. The ransomware Dridex…
Ransomware is increasingly becoming the weapon of choice for cybercriminals because of the lucrative returns that it promises, the relative ease with which it’s generated and then spread out and…
After Maersk, TNT, a subsidiary of FedEx, the US based logistics company has also reported having suffered from a global ransomware attack that is shutting down systems around the world…
Ransomware is one of the fastest growing cybersecurity threats in recent times with the estimated losses from 2017 standing at a staggering $5 billion and big names like Reckitt Benckiser,…
Although ransomware has existed in one form or the other for more than a decade, it has only gained popularity quite recently due to a number of digital initiatives that…
