Ransomware continues to be a security threat to businesses and consumers alike. The high-profile WannaCry and NotPetya attacks that have spilled over from 2017 into this year. Attacks have increasingly focused on servers, and attackers are looking to extend the malwares reach beyond the first infected system. In 2017, the two ransomware variants hit 200,000 machines in more than 100 countries within a 24-hour period, Webroot researchers said in their 2018 Internet Security Threat Report.”]

