Cybersecurity vendor Sophos is being impersonated by a new ransomware-as-a-service called SophosEncrypt, with the threat actors using the company name for their operation. Discovered yesterday by ...

With the increased threat of cyberattacks and ransomware, cybersecurity has become more than just a buzzword but a matter of great importance for organizations worldwide. The threat of ransomware, in ...

In the latest weekly update, three editors at Information Security Media Group discuss important cybersecurity issues, including the latest ransomware trends, plus an update on the National Institute ...

The House Energy and Commerce committee passed eight bipartisan bills this week to better equip the government and businesses with tools to handle the recent explosion in ransomware attacks. The bills ...

An unsealed FBI search warrant revealed how law enforcement hijacked the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware operations websites and seized the associated URLs. Today, the US Department of Justice confirmed ...

The Energy and Commerce subcommittee also forwarded a bipartisan privacy and data security bill to the full committee but—lacking support from Senate leadership—that legislation appears dead in the ...

Ransomware is nasty stuff. This type of malware encrypts files on your PC so that you can’t access them—unless you pay the attacker to unlock the data. In other words, your files are held hostage ...

We’re on track for 2023 to be a record-breaking year for ransomware attacks targeting the U.S. public sector. These attacks, which include both traditional encrypt-and-extort and newer data theft-only ...

The U.S. government lacks a complete picture of ransomware attacks that routinely cripple government and private sector networks, according to an investigation by Senate Homeland Security and ...

U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said investigators have recovered more than $2 million in cryptocurrency paid in ransom to hackers responsible for the Colonial Pipeline shutdown in early May.