By SentinelOne Updated: April 13, 2025 Ransomware is malware that encrypts files and demands ransom for the decryption. This malware has become one of the most rampant forms of cybercrime encountered nowadays. Its nature and scope have grown dramatically over the past decade in terms of sophistication and scale-with ransom demands pouring in billions of...Read More

Small businesses are a prime target for cybercrime, as we highlighted in our last annual report. Many of the criminal threats we covered in that report remained a major menace in 2024, including ransomware–which remains a primary existential cyber threat to small and midsized organizations. Ransomware cases accounted for 70 percent of Sophos Incident Response...Read More

Ransomware is everywhere. This disruptive malware infiltrates and disrupts everyone and everything from healthcare organizations to schools, retailers and energy distribution pipelines. But do you know how ransomware finds its way onto its victims’ systems? Or how it could get into your systems? One of the keys to preventing ransomware is knowing how it...Read More

CHENNAI: The East Zone cyber crime wing of Greater Chennai Police apprehended a 40-year-old man from Vikravandi on Friday for his alleged involvement in two separate cyber fraud cases registered in the city. According to the police, the victims lost over Rs 22 lakh in these cases. The arrested person, M Kalaiyarasan of Vellaiyampattu, facilitated...Read More

SAN RAMON, CA AND SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA / ACCESS Newswire / April 30, 2025 / Sensiba LLP, a Top-75 U.S. accounting and consulting firm, is pleased to announce the acquisition of AssuranceLab Pty. Ltd., a high-growth cybersecurity audit and risk assurance firm headquartered in Australia, with operations across the Americas, APAC, and EMEA. This milestone expands...Read More

In recent years, human-operated cyberattacks have undergone a dramatic transformation. These attacks, once characterized by sporadic and opportunistic attacks, have evolved into highly sophisticated, targeted campaigns aimed at causing maximum damage to organizations, with the average cost of a ransomware attack reaching $9.36 million in 2024.1 A key catalyst to this evolution is the rise...Read More

From 6-8 May, 25,000+ cybersecurity experts will gather at the Middle East and Africa’s largest cybersecurity event to secure the region’s digital future against deepfake scams and critical infrastructure vulnerabilities DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES / ACCESS Newswire / May 3, 2025 / With AI-driven cybercrime and ransomware attacks surging globally, GISEC Global 2025 returns to...Read More

Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime In Other Cybercrime Market Drama, BreachForums Marketplace Reboot Branded a Fake Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 21, 2025     Image: Shutterstock A notorious online cybercrime marketplace called Cracked claims to have restarted operations. So too has the recently disrupted BreachForums, although experts remain skeptical. See Also: Why...Read More

We look at how to stay safe online after three big retail names are struck by cyber attacks Some of the UK’s biggest retail name have been struck by a spate of recent cyber attacks stalling online shopping and putting personal data at risk. Marks and Spencer, Co-op and Harrods have all fallen victim prompting...Read More

A Yemeni national, Rami Khaled Ahmed, aged 36, has been indicted by federal authorities in the Central District of California for allegedly orchestrating a cyberattack campaign using Black Kingdom ransomware to extort victims, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Ahmed is accused of deploying Black Kingdom malware on approximately 1,500 computer systems across the United...Read More