Cybersecurity analysts have released a decryptor for BianLian ransomware that could allow victims to retrieve their encrypted files for free -- and avoid paying a ransom demand to cyber criminals.

The Justice Department (DOJ) made moves to disrupt BlackCat, a major ransomware group that has targeted schools, health care, local governments and other U.S. victims. The DOJ said it seized several ...

One of the worst types of malicious software that computer users worldwide are plagued with is ransomware. This type of malware encrypts the contents of the user's computer in an attempt to force the ...

The ransomware universal decryption tool that the clients of Kaseya used to obtain files held hostage by the REvil gang was leaked in a hacking forum. BERLIN, GERMANY - DECEMBER 27: A participant ...

American software firm Kaseya has access to the universal decryption key for the REvil ransomware that targeted its managed service provider customers. The company announced its access to the ...

New Zealand-based cybersecurity company Emsisoft has been quietly helping BlackMatter ransomware victims recover encrypted files, preventing “tens of millions of dollars” in ransom payments and ...

The Kaseya ransomware attack, which occurred in July and affected as many as 1,500 companies worldwide, was a big, destructive mess—one of the largest and most unwieldy of its kind in recent memory.

We’ve covered a lot of ransomware here, but we haven’t spent a lot of time looking at the decryptor tools available to victims. When ransomware gangs give up, or change names, some of them release a ...

Some users whose computers have been infected with a ransomware program called TeslaCrypt might be in luck: security researchers from Cisco Systems have developed a tool to recover their encrypted ...