Stories about: ransomware  

Before taking his own life, he killed his 4-year-old child

Even cyber criminals have a conscience, sometimes

Trend Micro researchers have analyzed attacks aimed at users in Turkey and Hungary

Not all ransomware is as unbreakable as CryptoLocker

The company wanted to pay up, but it was already too late

The “Threat Assessment on Police Ransomware” is an initiative of the EC3 and the NHTCU

The threat is also designed to exploit infected computers for Bitcoin mining

267,000 computers infected over a period of five months

ESET researchers have analyzed the new file-encrypting malware

Symantec has blocked 650,000 connections in November

Victims can end up paying a total of $1,250 (€923)

The tool prevents the malware from contacting its C&C server

Bitdefender has released a small tool that prevents the ransomware from encrypting files

They've agreed to pay $750 (€555) to have their files decrypted

The malicious emails purport to come from financial institutions

The cybercrooks can make $750 (€555) from one single victim

Here's what you can do to protect yourself against the threat