Ransomware News

Europol released its 2019 Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment report, which shows that crypto-ransomware remains a top threat.

German programmer Tobias Frömel “hacked back” the perpetrators of the Muhstik ransomware who forced him to pay 0.09 BTC.

Emsisoft cybersecurity firm has released a solution to the Bitcoin-demanding WannaCryFake ransomware.

McAfee Labs has observed increases of 29% in crypto jacking and 118% in ransomware attacks in the first quarter of 2019.

U.S. prosecutors are indicting a defunct crypto exchange and a senior executive for failing to comply with AML and KYC regulations and money laundering.

Tencent Yujian Threat Intelligence Center has spotted Ryuk ransomware in China, and received an extortion request in the amount of 11 BTC during their study.

The city council of Riviera Beach, Florida, has agreed to pay nearly $600,000 worth of BTC to regain access to data lost in a hacker attack.

Chainalysis claims that 64% of ransomware attack cash-out strategies involve the laundering of funds via crypto exchanges.

An app that claims to enable users to earn BTC and ETH automatically is a front for ransomware and Trojans, a security researcher claims.

The three most prevalent types of malware in April were all crypto miners, according to Check Point Research’s global threat report.

Bitcoin continues to account for the lion’s share of crypto-denominated ransomware payments — 98% as compared with just 2% for privacy coins like dash and moner...

PayPal was granted a cybersecurity patent to prevent crypto ransomware hackers from locking up users’ files.

Iranian Bitcoin hackers used the WEX exchange to launder Bitcoin acquired through ransomware, according to a PwC report.

About $1.7 billion in cryptocurrency was obtained via illicit means in 2018, according to a newly published report.

Researchers argue that the ransomware attacks thought to have earned hackers $3.7 million in BTC likely came from Russian cybercriminals.