Insurance Business America

Ransomware playbook torn up as data theft becomes top threat – Resilience

Cybercriminals moved sharply away from encryption-based schemes in 2025, with data theft and extortion overtaking traditional ...
Security Boulevard

When Nation-State Actors Turn to Ransomware: Inside Lazarus Group’s Medusa Campaign

Ransomware has traditionally been associated with financially motivated cybercriminal groups. Increasingly, however, state-aligned actors are blending espionage with disruptive ransomware tactics. New ...

New Research from Index Engines(TM) Shows Ransomware Continues Shift Towards Polymorphism, Shadow Encryption, and Wiper-Style Attacks

The CyberSense Research Lab (Patent #12248574) automates the collection, detection, and analysis of emerging ransomware threats to continuously train its CyberSense MLMs, which detect signs of ...
Security Boulevard

Emulating the Mutative BlackByte Ransomware

AttackIQ has released a new attack graph that emulates the behaviors exhibited by BlackByte ransomware, a strain operated ...
Canadian Underwriter

Good-bye encryption-based ransomware attacks: Cybercriminals adjust their tactics

Cybercriminals have adjusted to data backups, bypassing data encryption altogether and stealing data directly and issuing ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

Ransomware Actors Expand Tactics Beyond Encryption and Exfiltration

Only a quarter (24%) of ransomware incident involved the encryption of data. Data was stolen and either leaked or retained in 54% of cases analyzed. These multidimensional tactics appear largely ...
Bleeping Computer

New ShrinkLocker ransomware decryptor recovers BitLocker password

Bitdefender has released a decryptor for the 'ShrinkLocker' ransomware strain, which uses Windows' built-in BitLocker drive encryption tool to lock victim's files. Discovered in May 2024 by ...
Fast Company

The real problem with ransomware isn’t encryption—it’s the data that walks out the door

When ransomware strikes, most organizations spring into action as if they’re responding to a classic crime scene: Tape off the perimeter, start the restoration process, and try to regain access to ...

Code Red: RansomBreak Simulates Hospital Ransomware Crisis in January CEH Compete Challenge

TAMPA, FL, UNITED STATES, February 24, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- EC-Council, inventor of the world-renowned Certified ...
Computer Weekly

BianLian cyber gang drops encryption-based ransomware

The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) and the United States’ Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), have published updated intelligence on the activities of the dangerous ...
Bleeping Computer

Kidney dialysis firm DaVita hit by weekend ransomware attack

Kidney dialysis firm DaVita disclosed Monday it suffered a weekend ransomware attack that encrypted parts of its network and impacted some of its operations. DaVita is a major provider of kidney care ...

New Research from Index Engines™ Shows Ransomware Continues Shift Towards Polymorphism, Shadow Encryption, and Wiper-Style Attacks

Index Engines, the leader in cyber resilience, today shared the latest ransomware trends from its CyberSense® Research Lab, which reveals threat actors continue to advance their approaches with more ...