Ransomware gangs might have to scratch a few targets off their lists. The UK High Office and National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) announced proposals to ban ransom payments in an effort to "crack ...

Victims of ransomware attacks in the manufacturing and production industry are making the biggest ransom payments, with the average ransom demand paid coming in at just over $2 million. Ransomware is ...

For many organizations and startups, 2023 was a rough year financially, with companies struggling to raise money and others making cuts to survive. Ransomware and extortion gangs, on the other hand, ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is making ransomware faster and easier to use as the online crime hits record levels, experts said at a House Financial Services subcommittee hearing Tuesday. “We have ...

A new era of AI is emerging and it’s more autonomous than ever before. Agentic AI is set to transform the way people interact with technology, marking a paradigm shift in artificial intelligence.

State and local governments are highlighted in a new report that provides a mixed assessment of the effects of ransomware attacks on global organizations. But despite some positive news, the report ...

In an attempt to bring down ransomware, Australia is contemplating becoming the first country to ban ransom payments by making them illegal. This might sound like a great initiative but it is not ...

Ransomware attacks place organizations in a difficult, high-stress position, but paying the ransom is never the answer. Nearly all ransomware cases start by stealing and encrypting sensitive data, ...

A man under an umbrella looks at the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben in Westminster, London - Dinendra Haria / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images You've heard the phrase, "We don't negotiate ...

To no surprise, ransomware continued to disrupt organizations across every sector in 2025. Although each incident looked ...

Lawmakers in California have introduced a bill that would make it a felony to knowingly use ransomware, according to a Los Angeles Times report. Sen. Bob Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys) wrote the bill — SB ...

Ransomware gangs increasingly use their own or stolen computer code, moving away from a leasing model that made their activities easier to monitor, new research shows. Numerous prominent hacking ...