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His name is Guan Tianfeng and in December 2024 the US State Department’s Rewards for Justice campaign placed a reward of up to $10 million for anyone offering information on his whereabouts

When ransomware strikes, the first question every security team asks themselves is how the attackers got inside what was supposed to be a well-defended network. These days, the question is as

Ransomware’s history is littered with threat actors that rise and fall but every now and then a new name appears that grabs people’s attention for the wrong reasons. RansomHub, a ransomwa

When ransomware visits your network, resolve to build it back better. And if you’re tempted to pay the ransom, don’t. That money is better spent on new defenses to prevent a repeat incide

Imagine an everyday ransomware attack on a U.S. city that results in sensitive data being leaked weeks later when the large ransom demanded is not paid. Now imagine that the mayor of that cit

The precise origins of today’s ransomware are still up for debate but there is no doubt that a piece of malware called Reveton, which first emerged in 2012, was an important moment. The wor

Around a decade ago, the bad people who make ransomware had an idea that proved so successful it helped fuel a crime boom that still haunts us to this day: hide the technical complexity of ra

Cybercriminals, it is widely observed, have a fondness for weekends. This is not by chance—at weekends organizations are short-staffed, making this the best time to launch a cyberattack. It

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before but ransomware is undergoing another one of its periodic surges. Granted, cybercrime always seems to be on the up—does the media ever report drops

As we regularly observe in this blog, ransomware is devious and endlessly inventive. It’s this ability to find new variations on the same basic extortion template that has made it the most