ransomware

2017’s threat of the year was no contest (and no surprise)

Ransomware just took down an entire county in North Carolina. How did it happen, and what can your organization do to stay safe?

In this week’s edition Kaspersky Lab’s Transatlantic Cable podcast, Dave and Jeff discuss a North Carolina county victimized by ransomware, Apple Face ID, and more.

Do you use NAS for backup? We’ll tell you how to protect it from new threats

This versatile mobile banking Trojan morphs into ransomware on detecting a removal attempt.

POST IS BEING UPDATED LIVE. The world is being hit with yet another ransomware epidemic. It’s called Bad Rabbit, and here’s what we know about it so far.

A new blocker called nRansom locks users out of their computers and demands not money, but nude pictures.

Considering the modern threat landscape, the healthcare industry should pay more attention to cybersecurity

Living online is more comfortable than ever — do you really still need a helmet?

Global IT security problems like the recent Petya attack are of clear concern to large corporations — but they affect common people as well.

Just a few hours ago, a global ransomware outbreak began, and it looks to be as big as the WannaCry story that broke not so long ago.

The outbreak of Trojan ransomware WannaCry has already caused a heap of trouble to all kinds of businesses. However, we expect that companies whose infrastructures employ embedded systems are feeling particularly unhappy

By now, everyone has heard about the WannaCry ransomware attack. So far we have two posts about it: one with a general overview of what happened, and another with advice for businesses. But

The unprecedented outbreak of Trojan ransomware WannaCry has created a worldwide plague affecting home users and businesses. We have already posted some basics about WannaCry, and in this post we will

A few days ago saw the beginning of the Trojan encryptor WannaCry outbreak. It appears to be pandemic — a global epidemic. We counted more than 45,000 cases of the

One soldier does not make a battle, especially in the world of cybercrime, where hidden dangers lurk in the depths of the darknet and occasionally appear topside. There are a

No one expects ransomware — until it happens. If you think it’ll never hit you, consider this: According to Kaspersky Lab data, last year ransomware hit a new victim every

The annual RSA conference will often overwhelm the average attendee. Between the great talks, the exhibition hall, the parties, and the city of San Francisco itself, there is a whole

One day in May 2016, Marion, a computer user from Germany, logged on to her home computer. She had no idea what lay in store for her. The first sign

People are downloading a new app, looking to get free access to Netflix accounts. What they’re actually getting is a malware strain called Netix that encrypts users’ data and demands $100 in

In April 2016 a young and ambitious trojan cryptor known by the name CryptXXX was released. It was distributed by the infamous Angler and Neutrino exploit kits. It’s creators certainly