REvil ransomware affected many users around the world, especially when it struck Kaseya over the past months. The common modus of the gang behind the REvil attack is to make the victim pay the ransom ...

One of the worst types of malicious software that computer users worldwide are plagued with is ransomware. This type of malware encrypts the contents of the user's computer in an attempt to force the ...

The 3,500 keys are now available online, though it's unclear if anyone can use them to write a decryption program. I’m a managing editor at PCMag.com focused on PC hardware. Reading this during the ...

Cryptography is the go-to defense for cybersecurity, it’s essentially the strongbox of the computing era—and just like a strongbox it’s not designed to keep the contents perfectly safe from all ...

After the leak of the HDCP master keys earlier in the month, a couple of developers have constructed a software HDCP decryption program. The usefulness isn't immediately clear, however: practical HDCP ...

Last week Kafeine posted an analysis of a new ransomware called CryptXXX on the Proofpoint blog. Based on their analysis they determined that CryptXXX is affiliated with the developers of the Angler ...

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Victims of the widespread TeslaCrypt ransomware are in luck: Security researchers have created a tool that can decrypt files affected by recent versions of the malicious program. Surprisingly, the ...

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 ...