Browsing: ransomware

A new, but also familiar, malware attack scheme has emerged, targeting the cryptocurrency market: The VenusLocker group has switched its…

A new ransomware that only accepts Monero for payment has emerged, attempting to trick victims by masquerading as a password-protected…

Cryptojacking attacks exploded by 8,500% in 2017 resulting from the sudden increase in cryptocurrency values. According to research released by…

2018 is quickly moving by us, and while we have yet to see an attack on the scale of 2017’s…

LockBit, a long-feared global ransomware group, has suffered a significant breach of its own. The incident, which defaced its dark…

Cryptominers surged to the top of detected malware incidents, displacing ransomware as the No. 1 threat. Comodo Cybersecurity Threat Research…

Ransomware accounted for one tenth of 1% of all malicious email content in Q4, according to a new threat report…

There has been a decline in ransomware infections, but that does not mean that earned revenue has reduced for cyber-criminals.…

When returns on ransomware and cryptojacking started to decline, cyber-criminals had to get creative with alternative methods of making money,…

Last year saw a double-digit surge in ransomware, IoT threats, new malware and cryptojacking, in what SonicWall has described as…