Victims of MegaCortex ransomware attacks can now decrypt their files without giving into the ransom demands of cyber criminals, thanks to a free decryption tool that's been released following ...

Cybersecurity analysts have released a decryptor for BianLian ransomware that could allow victims to retrieve their encrypted files for free -- and avoid paying a ransom demand to cyber criminals.

Kaspersky has released a decryptor for the Fonix Ransomware (XONIF) that allows victims to recover their encrypted files for free. Fonix Ransomware, also known as Xinof and FonixCrypter, launched in ...

A new Onyx ransomware operation is destroying files larger than 2MB instead of encrypting them, preventing those files from being decrypted even if a ransom is paid. Last week, security researcher ...

Creators behind Zorab ransomware launched a fake tool that double-encrypts files affected by the attack. As free ransomware decryptor tools begin to enter the market, a wave of fake software that ...

Aside from the efforts of security researchers and antivirus companies, malware victims can sometimes also benefit from the fighting between rival cybercriminal groups. That happened this week when ...

New Zealand-based cybersecurity company Emsisoft has been quietly helping BlackMatter ransomware victims recover encrypted files, preventing “tens of millions of dollars” in ransom payments and ...

The ransomware family’s abuse of Polygon smart contracts echoes techniques recently seen in Ethereum-based attacks.

Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender has released a free decryption tool for MortalKombat, a months-old strain of ransomware targeting predominantly cryptocurrency users. MortalKombat, named after ...

Some users whose computers have been infected with a ransomware program called TeslaCrypt might be in luck: security researchers from Cisco Systems have developed a tool to recover their encrypted ...

Computer users who have been affected by the Dharma ransomware and have held onto their encrypted files can now restore them for free. Researchers have created decryption tools for this ransomware ...

On June 3, IT staff at UCSF School of Medicine detected a security incident that had occurred two days earlier, said school officials in a statement. "We quarantined several IT systems within the ...