Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Better load up some more antivirus software. - Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Windows users should think ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Safepay is a group of ransomware hackers that first burst onto ...

IBM researchers discovered an autonomously coded backdoor that they called unsophisticated but nonetheless ominous.

Artificial intelligence may be able to handle the mundane day-to-day tasks that vex workers and help provide breakthroughs in several fields, but the threats it presents are still very real. While ...

Fintech company Marquis is notifying hundreds of thousands of people that hackers stole their personal and financial ...

Microsoft warns that a threat actor tracked as Storm-0501 has evolved its operations, shifting away from encrypting devices with ransomware to focusing on cloud-based encryption, data theft, and ...

In a report published by security company GuidePoint Security, they’ve issued a warning that hackers can effectively bypass Microsoft Defender to install and deploy Akira ransomware. This is done by ...

The U.K. government wants to require victims of ransomware to report if they were breached with the goal of providing law enforcement with information that could help target the cybercriminals ...

If you read one thing today, let it be this, because the rules of ransomware have officially changed, and not in a “Yay, innovation!” kind of way. For years, the scam was simple: Hackers locked up ...

In context: Criminal organizations running ransomware operations are experimenting with new scare tactics to pressure victims into paying. Now, one particular group has taken it a step further, ...