One of the worst types of malicious software that computer users worldwide are plagued with is ransomware. This type of malware encrypts the contents of the user's computer in an attempt to force the ...

Computer users who have been affected by the Dharma ransomware and have held onto their encrypted files can now restore them for free. Researchers have created decryption tools for this ransomware ...

Good news for many victims of WannaCry: Free tools can be used to decrypt some PCs that were forcibly encrypted by the ransomware, providing the prime numbers used to build the crypto keys remain in ...

Over four million victims of ransomware attacks have now avoided paying over £600 million in extortion demands to cyber criminals in the first four years of Europol's No More Ransom initiative. First ...

Cybersecurity analysts have released a decryptor for BianLian ransomware that could allow victims to retrieve their encrypted files for free -- and avoid paying a ransom demand to cyber criminals.

There is some more good news for those who have fallen foul of ransomware. Czech security firm Avast has developed decryption utilities for victims of not one, not two, but three different ransomware ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender has released a free decryption tool for MortalKombat, a months-old strain of ransomware ...

Victims of the CoinVault ransomware might be able to decrypt their files with a free tool released by Kaspersky Lab together with the Dutch police. The tool can be found at ...

First the good news: there are now free utilities for decrypting your data after a ransomware attack. Now the bad news: the tools only work for specific ransomware, not all variants. Cisco Systems' ...