Dubbed by many as the “Year of Ransomware”, 2017 provided us with a very important and dangerous evolution to how these attacks make their way to your endpoints. The Cisco 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report warns that “defenders should prepare to face new, self-propagating” attacks, like those we saw in WannaCry and Nyetya. As attackers make their malware even more potent by combining it with worm-like functionality, they have essentially eliminated the need for the human element in launching ransomware campaigns.
