Sophisticated ransomware attacks, driven by financially motivated cybercriminals and state-sponsored groups, have created an ...

Security researchers are increasingly finding it challenging to attribute cyberattacks due to surging cooperation between ...

Finally, Jon Miller, CEO and co-founder of ransomware prevention specialist Halcyon, suggested there may be another factor to partially explain the decline. “2024 was a major election year in ...

Payments to ransomware actors decreased 35% year-over-year in 2024, totaling $813.55 million, down from $1.25 billion recorded in 2023. Additionally, only about 30% of victims engaged in ...

Ransomware Payments Decreased by 35% in 2024, Research Finds Your email has been sent LockBit and ALPHV have left a notable gap Decline in mixer use and rise in personal wallets signal law ...

Payments extorted through ransomware attacks decreased some 35% in 2024 compared to the year prior, according to a Feb. 5 report by Chainalysis, a blockchain analytics provider. In 2024 ...

For much of the past year, the trail of destruction and mayhem left behind by ransomware hackers was on full display. Digital extortion gangs paralyzed hundreds of US pharmacies and clinics ...

Ransomware payments fell by 35% year-over-year in 2024 amid a growing refusal by victims to pay demands, according to a new Chainalysis report. Ransomware groups received approximately $813.55m in ...

Feb. 5 (UPI) --Payments for ransomware declined year-over-year through 2024 for the first time since 2022, according to data shared by blockchain analysis firm Chainanalysis on Wednesday.

The best ransomware protection helps protect against the threat of hackers breaching your networks or device, and then encrypting your data before forcing you to pay for a decryption key or face ...

Ransomware gangs are increasingly adopting email bombing followed by posing as tech support in Microsoft Teams calls to trick employees into allowing remote control and install malware that ...