“But it is noteworthy that for the major attacks ... the notorious ransomware group Lockbit, hijacking its infrastructure, seizing its cryptocurrency wallets, taking down its dark-web sites ...

Payments extorted through ransomware attacks decreased some 35% in 2024 compared to the year prior, according to a Feb. 5 report by Chainalysis, a blockchain analytics provider. In 2024 ...

The increased profile of ransomware attacks in daily discourse means organisations are investing more and better in defensive countermeasures, and hence find themselves better able to resist cyber ...

These disruptions have resulted in a highly fragmented ransomware ecosystem, with an increase in the number of smaller groups and lone wolf actors to fill the void. This has in turn resulted in ...

Ransomware victims paid out 35% less to hacking groups in 2024 compared to 2023 even as the overall number of attacks increased, according to a report by the blockchain research firm Chainalysis.

It was widely believed that it was just the first of many attacks — with planes ... But if we are honest, that journey to the Dark Side was a collective failure — and sobering evidence ...

The extraordinary formations, each comparable in size to Earth’s Grand Canyon, are hidden on the far side of the moon — the side that always faces away from Earth — near the lunar south pole ...

The NYPD is searching for a suspect who allegedly made anti-Asian remarks and punched a woman on a subway train on the Upper West Side Police have classified the incident as a hate crime and released ...

LockBit previously conducted a number of high-profile ransomware attacks on companies, banks and government departments around the world since 2019, including the U.S. Department of Justice ...

But what happens when the new head of the executive branch isn’t content to allow that blue funding pipeline to continue? What happens when he looks into the spending and finds that taxpayer ...

There are many motivations behind ransomware attacks - the most prominent reason being money. Threat actors will also perform ransomware attacks to steal secrets, disrupt businesses, or just ...