U.S. researcher has found a temporary "vaccine" against the attack. MOSCOW— -- Cybersecurity researchers have been racing to analyze the new ransomware that struck Tuesday, first hitting Ukraine ...

Petya ransomware recently ramped up its encryption efforts, but an unidentified programmer has developed a tool that can crack the malware without payment, according to a BBC News report. The ...

The "Petya" cyberattack that has now struck computers in at least 65 countries can be traced to a Ukrainian company's tax accounting software, Microsoft says. "We saw the first infections in Ukraine — ...

UEFI secure boot was designed to block malicious code from sneaking into your PC's BIOS boot-up process. However, a newly discovered ransomware dubbed HybridPetya somehow found a way to circumvent ...

ESET Research has discovered new ransomware samples, which it has named HybridPetya, resembling the infamous Petya/NotPetya malware. They were uploaded to VirusTotal in February 2025. HybridPetya ...

Researchers from cybersecurity company ESET have detected a new ransomware called HybridPetya, which is similar to the infamous Petya and NotPetya malware. Like its predecessors, the malware targets ...

Notorious attacks WannaCry and Petya, for example, can discover and infect other computers without any user intervention. The Locky ransomware attack arrives via a phishing email and macro-embedded ...

The Department of Homeland Security U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued an alert Tuesday for a new strain of ransomware called “Bad Rabbit.” Here are six things to know about the newest ...

Those are just some of the many different ransomware families that have been cataloged by the ID Ransomware service, launched in March by the security researchers known as MalwareHunterTeam. The ...