The FBI is encouraging anyone who has been a victim of the LockBit ransomware group and its many affiliates to contact them for a free decryption key that could help restore their data. Bryan Vorndran ...

In Part 1 of my series on Transport Layer Security (TLS) decryption, I went over a few basics of encryption, discussed TLS 1.2, and concluded by outlining the improvements TLS 1.3 provided. In this ...

Ransomware has plagued many large companies around the United States and the world recently. An attack shut down a pipeline in the US not long ago, leading to fuel shortages in some areas and the ...

Learn why encryption keys matter more than encryption itself when choosing the best secure email—covering key ownership, access control, privacy risks, and true end-to-end security.

Some users whose computers have been infected with a ransomware program called TeslaCrypt might be in luck: security researchers from Cisco Systems have developed a tool to recover their encrypted ...

Fonix Ransomware operators have decided to shut down their operations and have subsequently released the master decryption key for all of their victims for free, allowing the victims to retrieve their ...

The Kaseya ransomware attack, which occurred in July and affected as many as 1,500 companies worldwide, was a big, destructive mess—one of the largest and most unwieldy of its kind in recent memory.

The SynAck ransomware gang released the master decryption keys for their operation after rebranding as the new El_Cometa group. When ransomware operations encrypt files, they usually generate ...

The cybercrime group behind the FonixCrypter ransomware has announced today on Twitter that they've deleted the ransomware's source code and plan to shut down their operation. As a gesture of goodwill ...

The FBI had the decryption key to unlock hundreds of hospitals and businesses’ IT systems held hostage by REvil’s ransomware attacks but chose not to since it planned to carry out an attack on the ...

American software firm Kaseya has access to the universal decryption key for the REvil ransomware that targeted its managed service provider customers. The company announced its access to the ...