A new version of VolkLocker, wielded by the pro-Russia RaaS group CyberVolk, has some key enhancements but one fatal flaw.

The pro-Russia hacktivist group CyberVolk launched a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) called VolkLocker that suffered from ...

The RansomHouse ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) has recently upgraded its encryptor, switching from a relatively simple single ...

A software programmer developed a way to use brute force to break the encryption of the notorious Akira ransomware using GPU compute power and enabling some victims of the Linux-focused variant of the ...

VolkLocker uses AES-256 in Galois/Counter Mode ( GCM) for encryption through Golang's "crypto/rand" package. Every encrypted ...

The complex, multi-layered encryption scheme increases recovery challenges for enterprises targeted by its double-extortion ...

First, the bad news: the CyberVolk 2.x (aka VolkLocker) ransomware-as-a-service operation that launched in late summer. It's run entirely through Telegram, which makes it very easy for affiliates that ...

A 35-year-old Ukrainian national pleaded guilty in a US court to charges related to Nefilim ransomware attacks.

Askul has revealed that a recent data breach stemming from a ransomware attack has resulted in over 700,000 records being ...

A Ukrainian man pleaded guilty in the U.S. last week to one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud for his role in a ...

However, there is no point abandoning any current efforts to shore up existing defences and increase the resilience of the supply chain. Quantum security may not be a 2026 problem, but ransomware ...

ESET Research's latest Threat Report detailed PromptLock, the first known AI-driven ransomware, “capable of generating malicious scripts on the fly”, using an OpenAI model, via the Ollama API, to ...