Ransomware using BitLocker to encrypt computers is not new. A threat actor used the security feature in Windows to encrypt 100TB of data on 40 servers at a hospital in Belgium.

ShrinkLocker is not the first ransomware variant that uses BitLocker to encrypt the systems. BleepingComputer stressed that a hospital in Belgium was struck with a ransomware strain that used ...

Plus: CISA's ScubaGear dives deep to fix M365 misconfigs Bitdefender has released a free decryption tool that can unlock data encrypted by the ShrinkLocker ransomware.… Bitdefender made the ...

It's amazing how often IT departments don't understand that if people can't work then there is no point in computers or the mentioned IT department. I'm having constant battles with them over ...

The group behind a new ransomware variant threaten to go beyond encrypting data in their attempts to force victims to pay up. Written by Danny Palmer, Senior Writer Oct. 14, 2021 at 6:06 a.m. PT ...

Ransomware attacks are still lucrative for cyber criminals because victims pay ransoms -- and the threat is still evolving.

US and European law enforcement’s disruption last week of a $100-million ransomware gang is the clearest public example yet of a new high-stakes strategy from the Biden administration to ...

In 2023, companies paid more in ransomware attacks than ever before, more than $1 billion according to Chainalysis, with a trend line from 2019 showing continued escalation. I don't believe that ...

A patch to fix the patch that caused admins to scamper for their recovery keys Microsoft has fixed a problem that sent affected Windows PCs scurrying into BitLocker recovery.… The problem, which ...

Ordinarily, if you have an active MS Account login, your Bitlocker recovery keys are stored there. This attack, however, appears to use Bitlocker in a way that doesn't result in MS backing up the key.