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Researchers have created a decryptor that exploits a flaw in Black Basta ransomware, allowing victims to recover their files for free. The decryptor allows Black Basta victims from November 2022 to ...

Victims of the LockerGoga ransomware can now recover their stolen files for free, thanks to a new decryptor released by Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender and the NoMoreRansom Initiative. The ...

Preparation can mean almost everything when trying to mitigate the risk and damage of a cyberattack. Building off 2023 claims data, current priorities among insureds, hotspots, and examining future ...

The number of organizations that experienced ransomware attacks over the past year has remained the same, but the average cost of data recovery has increased -- whether it is in ransomware payment or ...

The Clop ransomware gang is now also using a malware variant that explicitly targets Linux servers, but a flaw in the encryption scheme has allowed victims to quietly recover their files for free for ...

Researchers have exploited a weakness in a particular strain of the Black Basta ransomware to release a decryptor for the malware, but it doesn't recover all of the files encrypted by the prolific ...

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a recovery script for victims of the ESXiArgs ransomware variant that affected thousands of organizations worldwide this ...

The implication is stark: passive data protection strategies are insufficient. Survival now depends on layered defences that ...

Victims of the MegaCortex ransomware can now recover their encrypted files for free, thanks to the release of a new file decryptor. The free decryptor was built by cybersecurity firm Bitdefender and ...