The little snippet of Python code strikes fast and nasty, taking less than three hours to complete a ransomware attack from initial breach to encryption. Researchers have discovered a new Python ...

A team at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering created PromptLock and warns that it shows the tech industry needs to take ...

Operators of an unknown ransomware gang are using a Python script to encrypt virtual machines hosted on VMware ESXi servers. While the Python programming language is not commonly used in ransomware ...

A new kind of ransomware written in Python has upped the encryption game by using a unique key for every file it encrypts on a victim's machine, researchers have warned. The ransomware, dubbed CryPy, ...

A Ukrainian security researcher has leaked newer malware source code from the Conti ransomware operation in revenge for the cybercriminals siding with Russia on the invasion of Ukraine. Conti is an ...

The Russian-linked cyber crime gang associated with carrying out a major ransomware attack against a software company used a code that avoids targeting systems that use Russian and other former Soviet ...