Less than three months into her job as newly elected mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms' city was starting to crumble. The court system https://twitter.com ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As state security officials mopped up ransomware that attacked Colorado Department of Transportation computers last week, malware struck again Thursday. The ...

The destructive ransomware strain SamSam is still pummeling the healthcare sector, and hackers using it have hit at least eight separate targets in the government and healthcare sectors this year, ...

The port of San Diego. The city of Atlanta. Kansas Heart Hospital. Those are just a few of the more than 200 municipalities, universities, hospitals, and other targets that have fallen victim to ...

SamSam ransomware attacks are on the rise and operators are demanding more than ever from their victims, researchers have warned. Ransomware, a kind of malware which locks infected systems, encrypts ...

New versions of the SamSam ransomware will not execute unless the person running the malware's payload enters a special password via the command-line. This is a new protection mechanism added by the ...

For the last few weeks, SamSam ransomware attacks have steadily increased across all sectors. The virus took down the entire municipality of Farmington, New Mexico, and just last week two hospitals ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Image provided by Cisco A variant of the SamSam ransomware has attacked computer systems of hospitals, healthcare systems and government agencies, like ...

The first version of the SamSam (a.k.a. Samas or SamsamCrypt) ransomware was developed and released in late 2015 by a group of threat actors believed to reside in Eastern Europe. The group itself is ...

The SamSam ransomware has earned its creator(s) more than $5.9 million in ransom payments since late 2015, according to the most comprehensive report ever published on SamSam's activity, containing ...

The gang behind the Atlanta city shutdown and other attacks is selecting victims carefully and offering volume discounts to unlock whole organizations. Ransomware has lately lost its status as the ...