May 17, 2021 Cloudflare, an American web infrastructure and website security company, recently announced plans to replace the "madness" of CAPTCHAs with a new way to prove that web users are human. This is done by touching or more...

May 17, 2021 A second cybercrime forum, Exploit, announced that ransomware ads will now be banned and removed. This announcement follows the Russian-language hacker forum, XSS, which permanently banned ransomware themes last week. According to the forum, which more...

May 17, 2021 Following pressure from the U.S. government to crack down on cyberattacks, many ransomware groups have announced plans to shut down or scale back operations. In its latest update, DarkSide a ransomware group accused of carrying more...

May 17, 2021 A sophisticated ransomware attack forced the authorities to shut down most of the major IT systems running Ireland's national health care service as a precaution to help secure all core services compromised during the data more...

May 14, 2021 America's largest pipeline system, Colonial Pipeline, reportedly paid ransomware group DarkSide nearly $5 million to decrypt systems that were locked in the ransomware attack of May 7. According to Bloomberg, two people familiar with the more...

May 14, 2021 Brenntag, a leading chemical distribution company based in Germany, paid $4.4 million to the DarkSide Ransomware gang after an attack in its North America division that enabled the attackers to encrypt devices on the network more...

May 13, 2021 DarkSide, the hacking group blamed for crippling the Colonial Pipeline and its operations in the southeastern United States, claimed responsibility for the break-in at three other companies on Wednesday. The three companies were a Brazilian more...