Security News

Pay or well knock your site offlineDDoS-for-ransom attacks surge (ArsTechnica)
2015-11-12 18:35

Linux Encoder victims catch a lucky break: a flaw in the malware means no ransom has to be paid (Help Net Security)
2015-11-10 11:54

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)
2015-11-06 20:11

ProtonMail hit with ransom demand after DDoS attacks (SC Magazine)
2015-11-06 19:41

Crypto e-mail service pays $6,000 ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway (ArsTechnica)
2015-11-06 14:55

Crypto e-mail provider ProtonMail pays ransom to stop DDoS attack, attack continues (Help Net Security)
2015-11-06 08:41

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)
2015-10-30 07:00

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)
2015-10-26 15:30

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)
2015-10-24 14:35

Dutch Nab Hackers Setting Ransoms to Unlock Computers (SecurityWeek)
2015-09-17 17:29