“Ransomware is one of the biggest security problems on the internet and one of the biggest forms of cybercrime that organisations face today. Ransomware is a form of malicious software – malware – that encrypts files and documents on anything from a single PC all the way up to an entire network, including servers. Victims can often be left with few choices; they can either regain access to their encrypted network by paying a ransom to the criminals behind the ransomware, or restore from backups or hope that there is a decryption key freely available. Or start again from scratch.”
