A destructive ransomware program deletes files from web servers and asks administrators for money to return them, though it's not clear if attackers can actually deliver on this promise.

After targeting consumer and then business computers, ransomware authors are now going after Web servers.

Cybercriminals have developed ransomware that can be ported to all major operating systems and is currently used in targeted attacks against production servers.

Linux admins are reporting attacks against webservers resulting in the deletion of web folders, reportedly by attackers using a ransomware variant called Fairware.