Of all the common PC security threats today, ransomware may be the most pernicious and painful for users. Not only can it lock up your device and prevent you from accessing your PC and data, but it ...

In today's digital era, ransomware has become one of the most dangerous cybersecurity threats, affecting organizations of all sizes. Ransomware is malicious software that locks access to systems and ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on April 14, 2024. The original video can be viewed here. In the past year -- hospitals, pharmacies, tech companies, Las Vegas' biggest hotels and ...

Introduction As the world is more and more switched to the availability of the internet, web browsers act as portals to numerous services and data. However, such conveniences mean the existence of ...

Ransomware has developed to be both a lucrative and low-risk criminal activity. It is also a threat to the economic health of developed nations as well as negatively impacting critical national ...

ESET Research's latest Threat Report detailed PromptLock, the first known AI-driven ransomware, “capable of generating malicious scripts on the fly”, using an OpenAI model, via the Ollama API, to ...

Law enforcement takedowns of ransomware actors are accelerating, but experts think that as long as Russia harbors the cybercriminals, there are no quick and easy solutions to tamping down the ...

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This article is part of a partnership between First Opinion and Tradeoffs, a nonprofit news organization exploring our confusing, costly, and often counterintuitive health care system. To learn more ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. In the ...

Banning ransomware payments is a simple, elegant idea, with the potential for terrible unintended consequences. It’s attractive because it would, if it worked, stop the incentive for ransomware. If ...

Healthcare institutions have become a favorite target for bad actors, largely because of how easy they make it for attackers. In June, researchers discovered a healthcare data breach that exposed the ...