Cop wins hit crime infrastructure, not the people behind it If 2025 was meant to be the year ransomware started dying, nobody ...
Ransomware has always been more than a technical risk—it’s a business, a weapon, and a psychological warfare tool. In my previous Forbes article titled “Ransomware on a Rampage; a New Wake-Up Call,” I ...
Ransomware attacks remain among the most common attack methods. As recent analyses show, cyber gangs are increasingly ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Admit it: the first thing you think of when ransomware is ...
A ransomware infection incident at Kyowon Group, which operates Kumon Learning, Red Pen, and other services, has raised ...
The past year was much quieter than 2024 in ransomware takedown and anti-cybercrime law enforcement operations. Additionally, less organized collectives such as Scattered Spider, Lapsus$ and ...
Through a public records request, WRAL Investigates retrieved data from the state on which companies were victimized in the ...
New AI-powered capabilities in Google Drive aim to block ransomware from spreading after a malicious change to a file is detected. Google unveiled what it’s calling a new approach to combating ...
Incident response firms negotiate with hackers while also processing payments to them, leading to potential betrayals of ...
Anthropic's Claude Code large language model has been abused by threat actors who used it in data extortion campaigns and to develop ransomware packages. The company says that its tool has also been ...
Ransomware payments have reached a historic low of 23%. Dropping success rates could lead to more targeted attacks with higher payouts. Large enterprises could have an increased risk of becoming ...
‘We’re not going to abandon Ingram. If we had the mindset that any partner who experiences a breach is off the table, we’d have zero partners. All the major companies, this is part of the game as you ...