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![A king's ransom: an analysis of the CTB-locker ransomware (Reddit)](/static/build/img/news/alt/ransomware-statistics-small.jpg)
![Pay or well knock your site offlineDDoS-for-ransom attacks surge (ArsTechnica)](/static/build/img/news/alt/DDoS-small.jpg)
![Linux Encoder victims catch a lucky break: a flaw in the malware means no ransom has to be paid (Help Net Security)](/static/build/img/news/alt/cybersecurity-attacker-small.jpg)
The recently spotted Linux Encoder crypto-ransomware is very disruptive, but the good news is that the malware makers have made a mistake that allowed Bitdefender researchers to recover the AES encryp...
![ProtonMail pays ransom to end web tsunami still gets washed offline (The Register)](/static/build/img/news/alt/web-statistics-2-small.jpg)
![ProtonMail hit with ransom demand after DDoS attacks (SC Magazine)](/static/build/img/news/alt/cyberthreat-stats-small.jpg)
![Crypto e-mail service pays $6,000 ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway (ArsTechnica)](/static/build/img/news/alt/DDoS-small.jpg)
![Crypto e-mail provider ProtonMail pays ransom to stop DDoS attack, attack continues (Help Net Security)](/static/build/img/news/alt/malware-statistics-2-scaled-small.jpg)
Switzerland-based end-to-end encrypted e-mail provider ProtonMail has been on the receiving end of a heavy DDoS attack since Tuesday, November 3, and unavailable to its users for hours on end. Pro...
![CoinVault and Bitcryptor ransomware victims don't need to pay the ransom (Help Net Security)](/static/build/img/news/alt/breach-statistics-small.jpg)
Kaspersky Lab has added an additional 14,031 decryption keys to their free repository, enabling all those who have fallen victim to CoinVault and Bitcryptor ransomware to retrieve their encrypted data...
![TalkTalk Hackers Demand Ransom from CEO (Threatpost)](/static/build/img/news/alt/Phishing-small.jpg)
TalkTalk CEO Dido Harding said someone purporting to be the hackers who attacked the U.K. telecom demanded a ransom to keep them from publishing the stolen data.
![TalkTalk Faces Ransom Demand After Breach (InfoRiskToday)](/static/build/img/news/alt/data-breach-stats-small.jpg)