By Tim Lasonde

OCT 13, 2020 -- Over the past few months, our engineers have seen a dramatic increase in ransomware activity. Cybercriminals are using the COVID-19 pandemic, and the fact that the majority of today’s workforce is working from home, to find weaknesses and exploit them. 

Anyone who’s been following the security pundits and keeping an eye on the threat landscape can tell you that 2016 is being hailed as the year of ransomware. Sensationalist click-bait headlines aside, experts agree that ransomware is more than just the latest vulnerability that happened to make the headlines, and any business that relies on computers (are there any left that don’t?) can’t afford to ignore this. If you must TLDR, at least skim the minimum info below.