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 ...
The ransomware’s use of trusted administrative tools and recovery-disruption tactics shows why containment, not just endpoint ...
Global cybercrime costs are expected to grow by 15 percent per year over the next five years—with malware and ransomware driving a significant portion. Malware has been part of the cybersecurity story ...
The Interlock ransomware gang now uses ClickFix attacks that impersonate IT tools to breach corporate networks and deploy file-encrypting malware on devices. ClickFix is a social engineering tactic ...
As cybercrime surges around the world, new research increasingly shows that ransomware is evolving as a result of widely available generative AI tools. In some cases, attackers are using AI to draft ...
New versions of the XWorm backdoor are being distributed in phishing campaigns after the original developer, XCoder, abandoned the project last year. The latest variants, XWorm 6.0, 6.4, and 6.5, ...
It’s a story almost as old as time: malware is wreaking havoc on Android devices again. Usually, Android malware aims to steal sensitive data and passwords in order to gain access to online accounts.
Picus Labs has released a report that ranks MITRE ATT&CK techniques. According to the report, ransomware encryption is on the decline. Moving up the ranks is a malware that plays dead until it's ripe ...
Microsoft disrupted Fox Tempest, a malware-signing service accused of abusing Azure certificates to disguise ransomware and malware as trusted software. Microsoft says it disrupted a malware-signing ...