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 ...

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 ...

Victims of the Wildfire ransomware can get their encrypted files back without paying hackers for the privilege, after the No More Ransom initiative released a free decryption tool. No More Ransom runs ...

A lot of people want to know. Some probably do not. His Sheriff's Office laptop was found by investigators to have a section encrypted by a program so secure the manufacturer said it is virtually ...

Thousands of ransomware victims may finally get some long-awaited relief. New Zealand-based security company Emsisoft has built a set of decryption tools for Stop, a family of ransomware that includes ...

The Sodinokibi (REvil) ransomware has added a new feature that allows it to encrypt more of a victim's files, even those that are opened and locked by another process. Some applications, such as ...

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 ...