Governments have long warned against paying a hacker’s ransom, arguing that doing so only allows criminals to profit from their cyberattacks and fund the next one.…
Brothers Patrick and Ryan Coughlin, each with impressive tech careers (Patrick worked in national cyber defense and Splunk and Cisco, and Ryan in consumer products at…
If anything, 2026 has made it clear that cyber security is no longer a background concern—it’s front and center, woven into nearly every major story of…
Grafana Labs, the maker of the popular open-source web visualization software of the same name, confirmed it had been hacked but refused to pay the hackers…
Months after the Powerschool educational software breach paid for the redemption of a hacker to delete the banks of the company’s stolen data, at least one…
As cybercriminals continue to reap the financial benefits of their attacks, talk of a federal ban on ransom payments is growing stronger. US officials have long…
