Cop wins hit crime infrastructure, not the people behind it If 2025 was meant to be the year ransomware started dying, nobody ...

A recently-discovered ransomware dubbed “DeadLock” is stealthily exploiting Polygon smart contracts to rotate and distribute proxy addresses, say researchers at cybersecurity firm Group-IB. The ...

Ransomware has always been more than a technical risk—it’s a business, a weapon, and a psychological warfare tool. In my previous Forbes article titled “Ransomware on a Rampage; a New Wake-Up Call,” I ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Admit it: the first thing you think of when ransomware is ...

Ransomware attacks remain among the most common attack methods. As recent analyses show, cyber gangs are increasingly ...

As long as end-users click on a link, ransomware will continue to wreak havoc. That's the upshot of Zscaler's Threat Labz's recent annual ransomware report, which shows attackers continue to innovate ...

Through a public records request, WRAL Investigates retrieved data from the state on which companies were victimized in the ...

Incident response firms negotiate with hackers while also processing payments to them, leading to potential betrayals of ...

New AI-powered capabilities in Google Drive aim to block ransomware from spreading after a malicious change to a file is detected. Google unveiled what it’s calling a new approach to combating ...

Anthropic's Claude Code large language model has been abused by threat actors who used it in data extortion campaigns and to develop ransomware packages. The company says that its tool has also been ...

Ransomware payments have reached a historic low of 23%. Dropping success rates could lead to more targeted attacks with higher payouts. Large enterprises could have an increased risk of becoming ...

‘We’re not going to abandon Ingram. If we had the mindset that any partner who experiences a breach is off the table, we’d have zero partners. All the major companies, this is part of the game as you ...