Ransomware

Ransomware is mostly the end-user problem. However, businesses get hit too, and hit hard, especially the smaller ones.

CryptXXX ransomware encrypts files, steals data and bitcoins. Sounds serious, but we have a solution!

A new strain of ransomware targets servers which is, mildly put, a troubling development.

Yet another ZeuS variant is threatening businesses.

It’s not common that the ransomware criminals can be outsmarted. But sometimes they can be.

Cryptomalware can infiltrate and encrypt an entire network – including its backups – within minutes.

A bug in Petya ransomware has led to a decryptor that can help those impacted.

USA and Canada governments are fed up with the tyranny of ransomware. Experts from both countries analyzed the latest incidents and released an advisory for their citizens.

How you can prevent Ransomware on your file share with Kaspersky Lab enterprise solutions.

Cryptolocker was bad, CTB-Locker was even worse, and new Petya ransomware is a freaking disaster.

Newborn Locky ransomware encrypted patients data in two hospitals in USA. Explaining this new dilemma and how to stop it.

CTB-Locker comes back and strikes 70 web server from 10 countries across the globe. Who is at risk and what should they do?

A look at the evolution of mobile threats in 2015 and some predictions for 2016

A renovated version of TeslaCrypt ransomware has recently affected numerous devices in Japan and Nordic countries.

Here are some simple yet effective ways to protect your files from infection by ransomware.

As a follow-up to our recent foray into ransomware, we’re pleased to offer a fundamental practical guide on how to deal with ransomware.

An FBI representative speaking at the 2015 Boston Cyber Security Summit gave a piece of advice on ransomware which the San Francisco Chronicle called “disquieting”: he said it’s recommended victims

While FBI recommends victims to pay the ransom, Kaspersky Lab won back the access to the files for dozens of thousands of CoinVault and Bitcryptor victims.

Threatpost had a story last week describing a disruption of a large ransomware campaign connected to the Angler exploit kit. Experts from Cisco’s Talos security group “effectively nillified 50 percent of the exploit kit’s activity”.

Kaspersky Lab joined hands with the Dutch police to arrest the criminals behind the CoinVault dangerous ransomware.