Taking design cues from WannaCry, a fake copy of the popular King of Glory game is being used to spread ransomware

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What made WannaCry different from other ransomware attacks? We explain how it happened – and look at what lessons we’ve learned

But why stockpile when you could just buy Bitcoins when you need them, right? Wrong: it’s a bit more complicated than that

Here’s SophosLabs’ guide to what’s been happening in the families of ransomware in the past six months

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the ShadowBrokers crowdfunding attempt, errors in WannaCry, a new Wikileaks dump, last week’s Samba vulnerability, and the OneLogin breach.

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have found a number of programming errors in the WannaCry ransomware code that put file recovery within reach of sysadmins.

‘Legal reasons’ cited for decision to drop the plan to crowdfund a security community subscription to a promised monthly dump of exploits

SophosLabs gets under the skin of the bad guys’ latest attempt to drop ransomware on to your PCs