A ransomware variant favored by a pro-Russia hacktivist group is back on the scene with a new version that has a fatal flaw — it keeps artifacts that allow victims to decrypt their files. VolkLocker ...

Good news for many victims of WannaCry: Free tools can be used to decrypt some PCs that were forcibly encrypted by the ransomware, providing the prime numbers used to build the crypto keys remain in ...

A researcher analyzed how Akira operates on Linux and came with a brute-force decryption tool It took $1,200 and three weeks to decrypt a system The tool is available on GitHub now A security ...

Why encrypted backups may fail in an AI-driven ransomware era ...

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Security researchers claim Anubis ransomware is adding a file wiper The wiper reduces all files to 0 KB, irreversibly destroying them This could be an additional pressure point during negotiations ...