Criminals extorting money online have created huge businesses, complete with branding and HR ...

CULVER CITY, Calif. — Kidnappers used to make ransom notes with letters cut out of magazines. Now, notes simply pop up on your computer screen, except the hostage is your PC. In the past year, ...

Common failures in security that enable vulnerabilities to be exploited, as well as the politicisation of technology leading to its use by nation-states for cyber crime, were among the biggest issues ...

Patients with PIH Health were unable to communicate with their healthcare providers Tuesday, Dec. 3 after a ransomware virus attack over the weekend led to an entire network shutdown, officials said.

Japanese police confirmed 226 cases of damage from ransomware attacks in 2025, the second-highest annual total, data from the National Police Agency showed Thursday. The number of ransomware attacks, ...