Browsing: ransomware

Governments have long warned not to pay a hacker’s ransom demands, arguing that doing so only lets criminals profit from…

U.S. beverage maker Coca-Cola said one of its dairy subsidiaries was hacked and that it’s shutting down its operations for…

U.S. prosecutors have charged three Russian nationals and two web hosts with hacking, conspiracy, and money laundering over their alleged…

Florida man Angelo Martino has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for conspiring with hackers to deploy…

Last week, researchers at cloud security firm Sysdig said they’d documented the first known case of “agentic ransomware.” It was…

Offering a rare glimpse at the priorities of a top spy organization, Canada’s Communications Security Establishment said it conducted a…

After WIRED reported last week that Meta’s smart glasses app contained code that would enable the company to activate face-recognition…

A ransomware group is actively exploiting an unpatched flaw in security tools used across the U.S. federal government, prompting the…

A ransomware gang has escalated its attacks on law firms by sometimes sending fake IT workers in person to the…

The United States military has known for years that enemies could use location data to track troops’ phones—and it’s also…

An international coalition of law enforcement agencies announced Thursday that they took down a popular virtual private network service used…

Electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn, which makes devices and components for Apple, Google, Nvidia, and Sony, among other tech giants, confirmed…

A ransomware group is attempting to extort the electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn, claiming that it stole 8 TB of data…

Higher education has long been a target of ransomware gangs and data extortion attacks. But never before, perhaps, has a…

A U.S. court has sentenced Latvian hacker Deniss Zolotarjovs to more than eight years in prison following his conviction for…

Angelo Martino, a former ransomware negotiator, has pleaded guilty to helping cybercriminals extort companies in cyberattacks.  On Monday, the U.S.…