Cybersecurity analysts have released a decryptor for BianLian ransomware that could allow victims to retrieve their encrypted files for free -- and avoid paying a ransom demand to cyber criminals.

Security researchers have released tools this week that could help users recover files encrypted by two relatively new ransomware threats: Bart and PowerWare. PowerWare, also known as PoshCoder, was ...

There is some more good news for those who have fallen foul of ransomware. Czech security firm Avast has developed decryption utilities for victims of not one, not two, but three different ransomware ...

New Zealand-based cybersecurity company Emsisoft has been quietly helping BlackMatter ransomware victims recover encrypted files, preventing “tens of millions of dollars” in ransom payments and ...

IT software provider, Kaseya, has announced it is providing its clients with a decryption tool to recover customer data that was locked in a ransomware attack earlier this month. In a July 26 notice ...

If you don’t win an online auction, sometimes you receive a “second chance offer” that costs whatever your highest bid was for an item. Extortion doesn’t work that way as seen by the newest second ...

At least 2,000 law enforcement agencies in all 50 states of the U.S. now have access to tools that allow them to get into locked or encrypted smartphones and extract data from it, researchers have ...