Researcher releases Free Ransomware Detection Tool for Mac OS X Users

In Brief:
Introducing RansomWhere, a free generic ransomware detection tool for Mac OS X users that can identify ransomware-like behavior by continually monitoring the file-system for the creation of encrypted files by suspicious processes.

This ransomware detection tool helps to block the suspicious processes and waits for the user to decide whether to allow or stop the process.

Hollywood Hospital Pays $17,000 Ransom to Hacker for Unlocking Medical Records

Ransomware has seriously turned on to a noxious game of Hackers to get paid effortlessly.



Once again the heat was felt by the Los Angeles-based Presbyterian Medical Center when a group of hackers had sealed all its sensitive files and demanded $17,000 USD to regain the access to those compromised data.



The devastation of the compromised files can be pitched as:

Compromised emails

Here's How to Decrypt Hydracrypt & Umbrecrypt Ransomware Files

Over the last few years, we have seen several types of Ransomware malware that demand a whopping amount of money from users for the retrieval of their locked, compromised sensitive files.



We have also witnessed the birth of decryption solution for some of the Ransomware like Cryptolocker (partial), Coinvault, Rescue Kit.



One more solution has recently been released for decryption of

FBI Suggests Ransomware Victims — 'Just Pay the Ransom Money'

Your Headache is not my Problem.



If your computer gets hacked and infected with malware that holds your data for ransom, just pay off the criminals to see your valuable data again and do not expect the FBI to save them – it's what the FBI is advising concerning ransomware.



Ransomware is a sophisticated malicious software that lets hacker encrypts all the contents of a victim's hard

Chicago Police Department Pays $600 Cryptoware Ransom to Cybercriminals

Cyber criminals have started targeting government enforcement of the Ransomware in an attempt to extort money. Recently, the police department of the Midlothian Village in Illinois has paid a ransom of over $600 in Bitcoins to an unknown hacker after being hit by a popular ransomware attack.



The popular Ransomware, dubbed Cryptoware, disabled a police computer in Midlothian — located south