It’s the middle of a workday. While researching a project, a random ad pops up on your computer screen alerting you of a virus. The scary-looking, flashing warning tells you to download an “anti-virus ...

Spam is unavoidable: It clutters your phone call history and chokes your email inbox. Like spam, scareware is another annoyance that seems to go hand-in-hand with internet access. It’s why you should ...

Cybercrooks have hit on a new twist to their aggressive marketing of fake security software, and are duping users into downloading a file utility that holds users’ data for ransom, security ...

When it comes to cyber threats, ransomware undoubtedly gets the spotlight – and for a good reason, given that we've seen a 10-fold increase in ransomware in the past year. But it's certainly not the ...

We live in fast-paced and often worrying times, and fraudsters are primed to take advantage. Fear can be a powerful weapon and scammers know how to instill it in people and coerce them into taking ...

A new ransomware variant prevents infected computers from loading Windows by replacing their master boot record (MBR) and displays a message asking users for money, according to security researchers ...

New analysis on the ransomware trend shows how cyber thieves are increasingly holding systems hostage in an attempt to extort users.According to Derek Manky of Internet security firm Fortinet's ...

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This edition of the Week in Ransomware covers the last two weeks of news, as we could not cover it last week, and includes quite a bit of new information, including the return of the Avaddon ...

This week's news has been dominated by the Clop ransomware gang extorting companies whose GoAnywhere services were breached using a zero-day vulnerability. Over the past month, one hundred new ...

A suspected scammer who used scareware to trick hundreds of thousands of global victims into handing over money has been arrested by Spanish police. The unnamed Ukrainian national was apprehended at ...

Derek Manky, Chief, Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs, discusses the top threats and lessons learned from the first half of 2021. Year-over-year, ransomware ...