Dutch cybersecurity firm Tesorion has released a free decryptor for the Lorenz ransomware, allowing victims to recover some of their files for free without paying a ransom. Lorenz is a human-operated ...

Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender has released a free decryption tool for MortalKombat, a months-old strain of ransomware targeting predominantly cryptocurrency users. MortalKombat, named after ...

Victims of the CoinVault ransomware might be able to decrypt their files with a free tool released by Kaspersky Lab together with the Dutch police. The tool can be found at ...

Cybersecurity analysts have released a decryptor for BianLian ransomware that could allow victims to retrieve their encrypted files for free -- and avoid paying a ransom demand to cyber criminals.

A new Onyx ransomware operation is destroying files larger than 2MB instead of encrypting them, preventing those files from being decrypted even if a ransom is paid. Last week, security researcher ...

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 ...

A decryptor for the FunkSec ransomware has been developed and made avaliable to download for free by researchers at antivirus provider Avast. Ladislav Zezul, a malware researcher at Avast’s parent ...

Researchers have exploited a weakness in a particular strain of the Black Basta ransomware to release a decryptor for the malware, but it doesn't recover all of the files encrypted by the prolific ...

Ransomware started out many years as scams where users were being tricked into paying fictitious fines for allegedly engaging in illegal online behavior or, in more serious cases, were blackmailed ...

Couldn't figure out a better forum for this. Hopefully soon I'll have some money to buy a low-end NAS that I can use for backups which I can make a little safer than a connected USB drive, in terms of ...

Index Engines, the leader in cyber resilience, today shared the latest ransomware trends from its CyberSense® Research Lab, ...

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