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Researchers said they’ve seen an uptick in RIG Exploit Kit traffic and that attackers have begun using the kit to peddle CrypMIC ransomware.

A new ransomware strain called Mamba opts to encrypts hard drives rather than individual files and folders stored on the local disk.

HDDCryptor (aka Mamba) is a particularly destructive piece of ransomware that encrypts files in mounted drives and network shares, locks the computers’ hard disk, and overwrites their boot disk...

Both the number of variants of ransomware and volume of malware attacks were on the rise in August, according to Check Point. During August, the number of active ransomware families grew by 12...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation this week urged victims of ransomware to report infections to federal law enforcement in hopes of better understanding the threat.

A new Webroot survey reveals a disconnect between what college students say they would pay to access personal data being held for ransom and the reality of actual ransomware payments. While...