If you don’t win an online auction, sometimes you receive a “second chance offer” that costs whatever your highest bid was for an item. Extortion doesn’t work that way as seen by the newest second ...

Cryptolocker is making headlines for encrypting data and holding it ransom, but leaving some victims in the lurch despite paying out to regain access to their files. It uses strong encryption, making ...

Some users whose computers have been infected with a ransomware program called TeslaCrypt might be in luck: security researchers from Cisco Systems have developed a tool to recover their encrypted ...