Ransomware is not only growing, threat actors are also accelerating the pace of their attacks by using offensive tools to exploit valid credentials and hit targets with speed and precision. The ...

An open server hosted on a German cloud provider's systems has been discovered, containing the entire toolset of a member of the Beast ransomware group. The find exposes the tactics, techniques, and ...

A Russian national pleaded guilty to a wire fraud conspiracy charge related to his role in administering the Phobos ransomware operation, which breached hundreds of victims worldwide. Phobos is a long ...

Ransomware isn’t an isolated, potential cyber threat—it’s like a living organism that can shapeshift with multiple strains, tactics, and targets. The cybercriminals behind ransomware attacks run these ...

Ransomware is a cybersecurity issue that refuses to disappear. If anything, attacks are becoming more disruptive, difficult to fix and financially costly. The average ransom demand in 2025 was $1.3 ...

Ransomware may no longer dominate daily headlines, but it has hardly retreated. While public attention shifted to the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, ransomware groups accelerated their ...

In the realm of cybercrime, change is arguably the only constant. While cyber-extortion as a broader category of crime has proved its staying power, ransomware – its arguably most damaging ‘flavor’ – ...

Picus Labs has released a report that ranks MITRE ATT&CK techniques. According to the report, ransomware encryption is on the decline. Moving up the ranks is a malware that plays dead until it's ripe ...

The tried-and-tested “business models” favoured by some of the world’s most adept, and dangerous, ransomware gangs are scaling rapidly as cyber criminals increasingly adopt structured affiliate models ...

A key-handling defect in the ransomware can permanently lock files by discarding private encryption keys, leaving affected organizations unable to recover data even if a ransom is paid. A newly ...

Winona County said a ransomware attack recently hit its computer network. The press release didn’t specify exactly when the incident happened, simply that officials identified and responded to a ...