Payments extorted through ransomware attacks decreased some 35% in 2024 compared to the year prior, according to a Feb. 5 report by Chainalysis, a blockchain analytics provider. In 2024 ...
For much of the past year, the trail of destruction and mayhem left behind by ransomware hackers was on full display. Digital extortion gangs paralyzed hundreds of US pharmacies and clinics ...
Ransomware payments fell by 35% year-over-year in 2024 amid a growing refusal by victims to pay demands, according to a new Chainalysis report. Ransomware groups received approximately $813.55m in ...
Feb. 5 (UPI) --Payments for ransomware declined year-over-year through 2024 for the first time since 2022, according to data shared by blockchain analysis firm Chainanalysis on Wednesday.
The best ransomware protection helps protect against the threat of hackers breaching your networks or device, and then encrypting your data before forcing you to pay for a decryption key or face ...
A new ransomware campaign targeting Amazon Web Services users by a threat actor known as Codefinger has been confirmed in a Jan. 13 threat intelligence report from Halcyon threat research and ...
Ransomware gangs are increasingly adopting email bombing followed by posing as tech support in Microsoft Teams calls to trick employees into allowing remote control and install malware that ...
Blood-donation not-for-profit OneBlood confirms that donors' personal information was stolen in a ransomware attack last summer. OneBlood first notified the public about the attack on July 31 ...
The prolific Clop ransomware gang has named dozens of corporate victims it claims to have hacked in recent weeks after exploiting a vulnerability in several popular enterprise file transfer ...
A new ransomware campaign encrypts Amazon S3 buckets using AWS's Server-Side Encryption with Customer Provided Keys (SSE-C) known only to the threat actor, demanding ransoms to receive the ...
December 2024 broke records for ransomware attack volumes, according to data released by cyber security firm NCC Group, which said it saw a total of 574 confirmed incidents last month and a new ...
Security experts have warned that two ransomware groups are attempting to trick corporate victims into providing remote access to their machines, for data exfiltration and possible extortion. Sophos ...