Ransomware seems to be everywhere right now. If you’re a home user or SME employee on the receiving end of an attack it must feel like a pretty lonely moment when the extortion message appears on the screen of an infected PC demanding a payment of somewhere between $300 and $1,000 in Bitcoins.
The ransomware will have taken control of the computer and encrypted all or most of its files after an employee clicked on an email attachment, usually a PDF or what looks like one.