Ten years ago, ransom demands cost under $1000. Now ransomware attacks cost millions and are more disruptive than ever.

As ransomware locks users out of their devices, recovery speed becomes the true measure of digital resilience.

Ransomware doesn’t knock on the front door. It sneaks in quietly, and by the time you notice, the damage is already done. Backups, replication, and cloud storage help recover from ransomware, but when ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Although current high-profile news events are more often to be ...

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Hackers have adopted the new technique called 'FileFix' in Interlock ransomware attacks to drop a remote access trojan (RAT) on targeted systems. Interlock ransomware operations have increased over ...

These DOGE ransowmare hackers demand a trillion dollar payment. Update, April 25, 2025: This story, originally published April 23, has been updated with further details regarding the DOGE ransomware ...

Bottom line: Chipmakers typically use microcode updates to fix bugs and improve CPU reliability. However, this low-level layer between hardware and machine code can also serve as a stealthy attack ...

When a ransomware group locks a hospital's systems, they're holding patient lives hostage, not just data. Most hospitals pay the ransom because the alternative is unthinkable. Attackers know this.

Warlock ransomware breached SmarterTools via unpatched SmarterMail, exploiting critical flaws to access Windows systems and deploy encryption payloads ...