BOSTON (AP) — Political hand-wringing in Washington over Russia’s hacking of federal agencies and interference in U.S. politics has mostly overshadowed a worsening digital scourge with a far broader ...

Ransomware remains one of the most pervasive and evolving threats to organizational data security. As attacks grow more sophisticated, many businesses implement cyber-resilience strategies based on ...

Recent high-profile “ransomware” attacks on the world’s largest meat-packing company and the biggest U.S. fuel pipeline have underscored how gangs of extortionist hackers can disrupt the economy and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The following is a timeline released by Mayor Andrew J. Ginther Tuesday of a hacking attempt that brought down multiple city ...

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 ...

A third of the "flipped" CVEs affect edge devices, leading one researcher to conclude, "Ransomware operators are building ...

Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther said that data stolen by hackers in a weeks-long ransomware attack on the city was corrupted or encrypted and likely unusable. The city first learned the data published ...

Ransomware is nasty stuff. This type of malware encrypts files on your PC so that you can’t access them—unless you pay the attacker to unlock the data. In other words, your files are held hostage ...

Law enforcement authorities have seized the notorious cybercrime forum RAMP, which advertised and facilitated the sale of ...

The following is a timeline released by Mayor Andrew J. Ginther Tuesday of a hacking attempt that brought down multiple city computer systems and resulted in compromised employee personal data that ...