BOSTON (AP) — Political hand-wringing in Washington over Russia’s hacking of federal agencies and interference in U.S. politics has mostly overshadowed a worsening digital scourge with a far broader ...

Ransomware remains one of the most pervasive and evolving threats to organizational data security. As attacks grow more sophisticated, many businesses implement cyber-resilience strategies based on ...

Recent high-profile “ransomware” attacks on the world’s largest meat-packing company and the biggest U.S. fuel pipeline have underscored how gangs of extortionist hackers can disrupt the economy and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The following is a timeline released by Mayor Andrew J. Ginther Tuesday of a hacking attempt that brought down multiple city ...

Ransomware has always been more than a technical risk—it’s a business, a weapon, and a psychological warfare tool. In my previous Forbes article titled “Ransomware on a Rampage; a New Wake-Up Call,” I ...

Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther said that data stolen by hackers in a weeks-long ransomware attack on the city was corrupted or encrypted and likely unusable. The city first learned the data published ...

SmarterTools says the Warlock ransomware group hacked it through a VM running an unpatched SmarterMail server.

Law enforcement authorities have seized the notorious cybercrime forum RAMP, which advertised and facilitated the sale of ...

When Microsoft patched a vulnerability last summer that allowed threat actors to use Windows’ shortcut (.lnk) files in ...

The following is a timeline released by Mayor Andrew J. Ginther Tuesday of a hacking attempt that brought down multiple city computer systems and resulted in compromised employee personal data that ...