Two cybersecurity professionals who leveraged their specialized training to extort American businesses instead of protecting ...

The pair targeted several companies with ALPHV / BlackCat ransomware and extorted $1.2 million in Bitcoin.

Ransomware attacks have been increasing recently, and they're costing businesses a lot of money. But it seems like training to protect against this cyber crime remains an afterthought for most ...

Two former cybersecurity experts pled guilty to conspiracy to obstruct commerce by extortion. The perpetrators are facing 20 ...

Businesses across the globe are wrestling with the ongoing and evolving threat of ransomware, with recent victims including food, mining and even technology companies. However, ransomware isn’t just a ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

Seventy-three percent of government employees expressed concerns about future ransomware attacks against U.S. cities, according to an IBM Security survey released earlier this year. In the survey, 1 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Even though it appears ...

Barrington School District 220 is implementing new cybersecurity training following a ransomware attack that shut down all systems and servers in an Illinois school district last year. The attack, ...

A disgruntled Conti affiliate has leaked the gang's training material when conducting attacks, including information about one of the ransomware's operators. The Conti Ransomware operation is run as a ...

Training must teach employees how important it is to be unceasingly careful. And then, after all that, it takes perseverance and the understanding that guarding against all kinds of malware, including ...