A software programmer developed a way to use brute force to break the encryption of the notorious Akira ransomware using GPU compute power and enabling some victims of the Linux-focused variant of the ...

Written by Lindsey O’Donnell-Welch, Ben Folland, Harlan Carvey of Huntress Labs. A big part of a security analyst’s everyday role is figuring out what actually happened during an incident. We can do ...

A researcher analyzed how Akira operates on Linux and came with a brute-force decryption tool It took $1,200 and three weeks to decrypt a system The tool is available on GitHub now A security ...

A new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation is impersonating the legitimate Cicada 3301 organization and has already listed 19 victims on its extortion portal, as it quickly attacked companies ...