The developer behind the original Petya ransomware has provided a tool to help minimize the damage inflicted on infected PCs. It is in the form of a master decryption key to release the files held ...

American software firm Kaseya has access to the universal decryption key for the REvil ransomware that targeted its managed service provider customers. The company announced its access to the ...

Back on July 2nd, Russia-linked ransomware group REvil staged what ended up as a massive attack on IT management software giant Kaseya, as well as its clients and their customers. The group took ...

Over the years, researchers have repeatedly broken the security and privacy promises that Intel and AMD have made about their ...

What are cryptographic keys, and why should they be kept safe? A cryptographic key is a string of data that is used to encrypt data (to the data secret), decrypt data (to perform the reverse operation ...

REvil ransomware affected many users around the world, especially when it struck Kaseya over the past months. The common modus of the gang behind the REvil attack is to make the victim pay the ransom ...

On Thursday, the software company Kaseya announced that it could help unlock any of its customers’ systems that were still inaccessible following a devastating ransomware attack early this month that ...

A malicious software program that encrypts a person’s files until a ransom is paid has a crucial error: it leaves the decryption key on the victim’s computer. Symantec analyzed a program called ...

How to easily encrypt/decrypt a file in Linux with gpg Your email has been sent Stop your search for an easy way to encrypt and decrypt files in Linux -- the built-in ...

Security researchers have demonstrated a method to decrypt proprietary firmware images embedded in D-Link routers. Firmware is the piece of code that powers low-level functions on hardware devices. It ...