SSE-C stands (well, stood) for “Server Side Encryption- Customer-provided keys”. It allowed you to provide an encryption key ...

Security operations platform startup Adlumin Inc. today announced a new ransomware prevention feature that immediately detects and stops ransomware from encrypting files. Called Adlumin Ransomware ...

A new 'White Phoenix' ransomware decryptor allows victims to partially recover files encrypted by ransomware strains that use intermittent encryption. Intermittent encryption is a strategy employed by ...

Hackers use ransomware to go after every industry, charging as much money as they can to return access to a victim's files. It’s a lucrative business to be in. In the first six months of 2023, ...

The methods for preventing and remediating ransomware events should be a superset of the preparedness and remediation activities for traditional IT disaster recovery.

Bitdefender has released a decryptor for the 'ShrinkLocker' ransomware strain, which uses Windows' built-in BitLocker drive encryption tool to lock victim's files. Discovered in May 2024 by ...

What might be the fastest-ever ransomware encryption binary has been spotted in the wild, locking up systems at nearly twice the speed of the notorious LockBit 3.0 malware. According to speed tests by ...

The share of ransomware victims whose data was encrypted by their extorters grew to 76% over the past year, the highest since Sophos began recording these trends, the vendor claimed today. The Sophos ...

Only a quarter (24%) of ransomware incident involved the encryption of data. Data was stolen and either leaked or retained in 54% of cases analyzed. These multidimensional tactics appear largely ...

Cases of straight-up data theft and extortion now appear to be more widespread a threat than ransomware, becoming the single most observed threat in the second calendar quarter of 2023, according to ...

For some attackers who are skipping the encryption — and solely pressuring victims to pay over stolen data — the goal is actually to minimize disruption, experts told CRN. While traditional ransomware ...

A file-encrypting ransomware program called CryptoWall infected over 600,000 computer systems in the past six months and held 5 billion files hostage, earning its creators more than $1 million, ...