Sheriff Austin Garrett said Friday that hackers who compromised the office's computer system's and knocked them off the air for over two weeks were asking $300,000 in ransom. The sheriff said, instead ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The Jefferson County Clerk’s Office said they received a ransom note during the cyberattacks that led to an almost four-day-long outage. On Monday, July 22, the clerk’s office ...

Ransomware actors are utilizing a previously unseen tactic in their ransomware notes: posting advertisements to solicit insider information. Researchers at the GroupSense threat intelligence team ...

CDK Global likely paid a hacker group nearly $25 million in ransom June 21 to address the cyberattacks that led to significant software outages across the auto retail industry, CNN reported. CDK ...

Netstar Australia has been named on a ransomware leak site, with threat actors claiming to have stolen a large volume of data from the Melbourne-based telematics provider, in an incident likely to be ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. When a cyberattack hits, the ransom often dominates the headlines—and the boardroom ...

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 ...

Federal agencies recommend not paying hackers ransom. Meat supplier JBS, which was the victim of a ransomware attack over Memorial Day weekend, paid $11 million in bitcoins to the hackers that ...