Security News

As Ransomware Attacks Evolve, More Potential Victims Are at Risk (Threatpost)
2015-04-14 10:00

In early December, as most people were dealing with the stress of looking for the perfect holiday gifts and planning out their upcoming celebrations, police officers in a small New England town...

CoinVault ransomware: Retrieve data without paying the criminals (Help Net Security)
2015-04-14 05:25

Victims of the CoinVault ransomware have a chance to retrieve their data without having to pay the criminals, thanks to a repository of decryption keys and a decryption application made available onli...

New crypto-ransomware "quarantines" files, downloads info-stealer (Help Net Security)
2015-04-07 13:24

Trend Micro researchers have found and analyzed a new piece of crypto-ransomware: CryptVault encrypts files, makes them look like files quarantined by an AV solution, asks for ransom and, finally, dow...