Ransomware has been around since 2013, but it was the success of CryptoLocker that spawned a vertical market for criminals. Last week’s NotPetya attack spread so quickly that it was focused on organizations in Ukraine and Russia. The attack started with M.E.Doc, a company that develops accounting software used by almost every company in Ukraine. The authorities in Ukraine seized the company’s servers on Wednesday, and are investigating the company over the attack. An IT manager in New Mexico, Daniel Tharp, recently published a blog post on the topic of ransomware as something that’s here to stay and hammers home some essential practices.”]