Here is a practical look at common ransomware attacks, how they operate, and how organizations can defend against them.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. While the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the ...

Ransomware is now a routine business risk. True resilience comes from governance, tested incident response plans, recovery readiness, legal preparation, and trained leadership—not just security ...

Jul 4, 2021 Jul 4, 2021 Updated Jul 22, 2021 0 Ransomware scrambles the target organization's data with encryption. The criminals leave instructions on infected computers for negotiating ransom ...

In 2024, ransomware attacks targeting U.S. state and local governments surged 23 percent, with 117 documented attacks, signaling a troubling rise in this breed of cyber attack. In this time, the ...

It’s kind of scary to think how much of our lives are on our phones. Our emails, our messages, our photos, our calendar appointments, our banking information, our social lives, and more. This means ...

Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) models, double extortion tactics, and increasing adoption of AI characterize the evolving ransomware threat landscape. Law enforcement takedowns of groups such as ...

Multiple ransomware gangs are using a packer-as-a-service platform named Shanya to help them deploy payloads that disable endpoint detection and response solutions on victim systems. Packer services ...

When cybercrime began making headlines in the 1980s, there was an unwritten code of ethics between hackers that healthcare was off-limits. Today, that moral philosophy is no more as hospitals and ...