Ransomware may be the big-time cyberattack du jour, but at its heart these types of attacks are plain old shakedown attempts. Jeremiah Grossman, chief of security strategy for security firm SentinelOne, referenced an example from 75 B.C. where Julius Caesar made his captors demand a higher ransom, and after his kidnappers were hunted down and executed, he had his kidnapper hunted down. The bigger question is: How do you get rid of it? In effect, our productivity and communication tools are made to work against us, Grossman says.”]
Source: https://www.inforisktoday.com/blogs/ransomware-old-racket-new-look-p-2471