A Ukrainian national was sentenced on Wednesday to more than 13 years in prison and ordered to pay $16 million in restitution for helping to conduct a 2021 ransomware attack that infected hundreds of ...

Foxconn confirmed a North American cyberattack after Nitrogen claimed it had stolen 11M files tied to major tech customer projects.

A joint investigation by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center and Microsoft Security Response Center found that a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows Common Log File System had been exploited by ...

In the realm of cybercrime, change is arguably the only constant. While cyber-extortion as a broader category of crime has proved its staying power, ransomware – its arguably most damaging ‘flavor’ – ...

Ransomware has become the background noise of modern business. It hums along in the distance until the moment it doesn’t. Then it’s loud, expensive, and personal. Every year brings new attack variants ...

Dating back to the 1980s, ransomware is a form of malware used by cybercriminals to lock files on a person's computer and demand payment to unlock them. The technology — which officially turned 35 in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. As new reports confirm that the ransomware cyberattack threat ...

This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Bill Whitaker reported on ransomware attacks. Hackers from around the world have teamed up to attack tech companies, hotels, casinos, and hospitals in the United ...

Robert Legare is a CBS News multiplatform reporter and producer covering the Justice Department, federal courts and investigations. He was previously an associate producer for the "CBS Evening News ...

Ransomware attacks are increasingly threatening to K–12 schools, with districts of all sizes becoming prime targets for cybercriminals. These school ransomware attacks don’t just impact IT systems.

Data stolen in a cyberattack that shut down an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the US last week has been returned to the platform’s parent company, Instructure, ...