TAMPA, FL, UNITED STATES, February 24, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — EC-Council, inventor of the world-renowned Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification, held the ...

Generative AI tools analyzed target networks and wrote exploit code, enabling an opportunistic attacker to have an outsized ...

Ransomware may no longer dominate daily headlines, but it has hardly retreated. While public attention shifted to the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, ransomware groups accelerated their ...

The operators of DragonForce, a ransomware-as-a-service outfit that first surfaced in 2023, appear to be drawing heavily from the organized crime playbook, creating a cartel and attempting to bring ...

A key-handling defect in the ransomware can permanently lock files by discarding private encryption keys, leaving affected organizations unable to recover data even if a ransom is paid. A newly ...

Victims hit with the emerging Sicarii ransomware should never opt to pay up: the decryption process doesn't work, likely a result of an unskilled cybercriminal using vibe-coding to create it.

Cybercriminals are happy to target almost any industry where data can be stolen. In many cases, less prepared and less security-focused companies are simply easier targets. A recent ransomware attack ...

Common failures in security that enable vulnerabilities to be exploited, as well as the politicisation of technology leading to its use by nation-states for cyber crime, were among the biggest issues ...

Thembekile Olivia Mayayise does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant ...

A Ukrainian national has pleaded guilty to multiple crimes in relation to his involvement in ransomware attacks. The suspect and his group targeted several companies using the Nelifim ransomware code.

Ransomware payments reported to the US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) surpassed $4.5 billion by the end of 2024, with the highest levels reached in 2023. FinCEN’s new ...