Bitcoin's unstable value has also made it an unviable medium of exchange. It is as though your $10 bill could buy you a beer on one day and...

In the absence of regulation, cryptocurrency exchanges in India are not being able to get insurance protection against cyber risks like ran...

The world's largest meat processing company says it paid the equivalent of USD 11 million to hackers who broke into its computer system lat...

The hackers demanded ransom to release the data which were encrypted from their computers, a senior officer of the Kolkata Police said.

Ransomware is a malicious software and the Locky Ransomware is learnt to be demanding ransom of half bitcoin, which at present is equivalen...

The firm is planning to start demo operations on August 14 and initiate full fledged trading from August 24

According to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), 27,482 cases of cybercrime were reported from January to June.

According to the complaint, Deshpandey's computer was taken over by the ransomware and money was demanded for the same.

The circulation of virtual currency has been a cause of concern among central bankers the world over. RBI had cautioned the users of VCs, i...

The current attack by ransomware WannaCry is considered the worst ever, with newer versions appearing even as solutions are found to deal w...

In recent cyber attacks, "ransomware'' hackers held victims hostage by encrypting their data and demanding them to send bitcoins to regain ...

Several Indian companies compromised by the WannaCry cyber-attack were unwilling to pay in bitcoins to recover their data, fearing that wil...

A multi-agency monitoring team is continuously assessing the situation round the clock, IT Secretary Aruna Sundararajan said on the margins...

Though lawyers and experts have been advising companies to not pay bitcoins, some Indian companies are believed to have gone ahead and paid...

Transactions in bitcoin, which is part of no banking system, cannot be tracked which makes it easier for cyber criminals to run their trade.

Chinese companies have made considerable investments into the vast server farms needed to mine the digital currency.

Ransomware is a kind of malware which is targeted to extort money through primarily crypto currencies such as Bitcoins, by locking computer...