New, more complex ransomware groups are splintering from the big names, creating a highly competitive market for victims.

Online attackers are increasingly stealing data and holding it to ransom without encrypting files, doubling down on the use ...

For years, organizations treated ransomware as a technical threat, but that mindset is now dangerously outdated as ransomware ...

Smaller crews piled in as old names splintered and rebranded Ransomware payments cratered in 2025, but it seems like the cybercrooks launching the attacks didn't get the memo.… That's the headline ...

RansomHub’s rise and disruption showed how quickly an affiliate model can industrialize extortion and how easily key capabilities can outlive a single name.

Jurgita Lapienytė, chief editor at Cybernews, has told Digital Journal that AI has supercharged ransomware gangs in 2025, and ...

A decryptor for the FunkSec ransomware has been developed and made avaliable to download for free by researchers at antivirus provider Avast. Ladislav Zezul, a malware researcher at Avast’s parent ...

The Qilin ransomware gang remained 'top dog' in January 2026 with over 100 observed cyber attacks to its name, amid a rapidly evolving, and fragmenting, cyber criminal ecosystem.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Federal authorities are warning users of Gmail, Outlook, and other popular email services about dangerous ransomware linked to a ...

Why encrypted backups may fail in an AI-driven ransomware era ...

A newly identified custom backdoor deployed in several recent ransomware attacks has been linked to at least one RansomHub ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation affiliate. Symantec researchers who ...

About 90% of healthcare organizations are insecurely connected to the internet and running systems vulnerable to exploitation by ransomware gangs, according to research released this week by ...