A new malicious program that encrypts files on Web servers has affected at least 100 websites over the past few weeks, signaling a new trend in ransomware development. The program, which is written in ...

A new ransomware called CTB-Faker was discovered that pretends to be the CTB-Locker ransomware. It is a poor imitator, though, as instead of encrypting a victim's files, it will move them instead into ...

Romanian authorities have arrested five people on accusations of spreading email spam that infected users with the CTB-Locker and Cerber ransomware families. Romania's Directorate for Investigating ...

Victims infected with the MarsJoke ransomware can now decrypt their files; researchers cracked the encryption in the CTB-Locker lookalike last week. Victims infected with the MarsJoke ransomware can ...

Five men accused of distributing CTB-Locker and Cerber ransomware have been arrested by authorities in Romania. The arrests, made by Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and ...

WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kaspersky Lab announced today that users who have suffered from Polyglot ransomware, also known as MarsJoke, can now restore their files with the decryption tool ...

Ransomware authors are using the bitcoin blockchain, which serves as the cryptocurrency’s public transaction ledger, to deliver decryption keys to victims. The technique, which removes the burden of ...

Antivirus firm Bitdefender has released a free tool that can prevent computers from being infected with some of the most widespread file-encrypting ransomware programs: Locky, TeslaCrypt, and ...

Security researchers have released a free new tool that they claim can help protect users against known and possible future versions of the Locky, Teslacrypt, and CTB-Locker ransomware. This ...

Crypto-ransomware is becoming an increasing problem for businesses as cybercriminals are turning their attention to using these attacks to target corporate networks. Cybercriminals are aware that this ...