When the new Thanatos ransomware first surfaced, it encrypted victims' data -- but since the malware failed to record the encryption key, victims who paid the ransom were still out of luck.

Good news for many victims of WannaCry: Free tools can be used to decrypt some PCs that were forcibly encrypted by the ransomware, providing the prime numbers used to build the crypto keys remain in ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elastio, the leading ransomware recovery assurance platform, announced a strategic partnership with Advance2000 (A2K), a premier provider of private cloud infrastructure and ...

A ransomware variant favored by a pro-Russia hacktivist group is back on the scene with a new version that has a fatal flaw — it keeps artifacts that allow victims to decrypt their files. VolkLocker ...

Best ransomware protection in 2026: 5 tools tested for default settings, file recovery and false alerts. Norton 360 takes ...

Gunra ransomware, confirmed in a joint FBI-CISA-NSA-South Korea advisory, defeated enterprise MFA by rewriting authentication files on victim servers - and a flaw in its Linux variant lets ...

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 ...

A key-handling defect in the ransomware can permanently lock files by discarding private encryption keys, leaving affected organizations unable to recover data even if a ransom is paid. A newly ...

In February 2026, the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) fell victim to a ransomware attack. The incident took the Epic electronic health record system offline across 35 clinics and more ...