The Qilin ransomware gang remained 'top dog' in January 2026 with over 100 observed cyber attacks to its name, amid a rapidly evolving, and fragmenting, cyber criminal ecosystem.

Jurgita Lapienytė, chief editor at Cybernews, has told Digital Journal that AI has supercharged ransomware gangs in 2025, and ...

Ransomware was the largest threat to U.S. critical infrastructure in 2024, with complaints rising 9% from 2023.

A new ransomware gang called 0APT has attracted attention, but many of its victims may not even be real, and its operators are being accused of over-egging their criminal pudding.

The number of ransomware victims paying threat actors has dropped to 28% last year, an all-time low, despite a significant increase in the number of claimed attacks.

Locky, a once major ransomware variant that has waned in prevalence in recent months, has returned and is reportedly being distributed worldwide, reports Bleeping Computer. Security researcher Racco42 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 23—WINONA, Minn. — Winona County recently responded to a ransomware incident affecting its computer network. The county is ...

With cyberattacks on the rise, security professionals in the private and public sector are working together to stay one step ahead of hackers. On February 18, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ...

The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) closed all its clinic locations statewide on Thursday following a ransomware attack.

The New York Times ran an op-ed piece at the beginning of January about how a woman had to help her mother deal with a computer virus, but this was no ordinary virus that a purge of a hard drive or a ...

Atlanta isn't the only target. Turns out, your personal computer could be vulnerable to a ransomware attack. "Once it's installed, the ransomware will go and encrypt portions of your disk that we ...