Almost half of all companies have been the victims of a ransomware attack during the past 12 months, a new report says. While globally, 40 percent of them have paid the ransom, 97 percent of U.S. companies did not. 75 percent of enterprise victims paid up in Canada, 58 percent in the U.K., and 22 percent in Germany. In the United States, the attacks were much more likely to hit lower-level employees than in other countries. The bulk of the attacks first entered an organization through user computers.”]