To complete Decryption, you first need to l ocate a pair of Beacon devices in the area where you start the mission. Both will ...

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A Ghanaian financial institution was hit by a major ransomware attack that encrypted vast volumes of data and disrupted critical services, INTERPOL has disclosed. The incident emerged during Operation ...

Two former employees of cybersecurity incident response companies Sygnia and DigitalMint have pleaded guilty to targeting U.S. companies in BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware attacks in 2023. 33-year-old ...

A ransomware expert lauded a recent crackdown on cybercrooks in Africa that resulted in the decryption of six ransomware strains, smashing of links to malicious websites, and hundreds of arrests as ...

A Texas man and a Georgia man pleaded guilty to their roles in a 2023 ransomware scheme that used “BlackCat” technology to extort victims. Kevin Martin, a 36-year-old from Texas, and Ryan Goldberg, a ...

The pair targeted several companies with ALPHV / BlackCat ransomware and extorted $1.2 million in Bitcoin. The pair targeted several companies with ALPHV / BlackCat ransomware and extorted $1.2 ...

An Interpol-coordinated initiative called Operation Sentinel led to the arrest of 574 individuals and the recovery of $3 million linked to business email compromise, extortion, and ransomware ...

Over 300,000 new types of ransomware and other malicious software are discovered daily, according to the IT security research institute AV-TEST. Computer viruses can slow your devices, create a slew ...

According to INTERPOL, the cases investigated during the operation were linked to estimated financial losses exceeding USD 21 million (Sh2.7 billion). As part of the crackdown, authorities took down ...