A ransomware bill has been introduced calling for specific penalties for anyone connected to the spread of ransomware. Will it help curb the spread of seemingly endless ransomware variants?
Following a spate of attacks on the healthcare industry, the education sector, and other service providers, personalized attacks embraced by profit-driven scammers are now utilizing various malware.
Major security certification provider has been spreading TeslaCrypt, a ransomware that takes the victim’s files hostage via encryption. More details here.
KeRanger, believed to be the world's first ransomware specifically designed to infect OS X machines has been found piggybacking on a compromised installer of a BitTorrent client.