If your systems lack secure encryption and end up falling victim to ransomware can be a scary and daunting experience. It’s essential in these cases to remain calm and take the proper steps to ensure that you recover your data, your system is secure, and your business operations are not disrupted.

In this article, we'll discuss what ransomware is and what steps you can take if you become a victim.

In a month of two, after the attack of 'WannaCry', a new Ransomware named 'Petya' started spreading across the world. It's a massive cyber attack that paralyzed firms, airports, banks and government departments that uses unpatched old Windows operating system.

Starting with Ukraine, it already spread many countries like UK, Spain and India. Check this post to know how to take precaution from such attacks.

You might have already heard about 'WannaCry' or 'WannaCrypt' ransomware which affected many outdated Windows system across the globe and demanded BitCoins worth $300 to decrypt the affected files. This was spread via a vulnerability on Windows system.

Though a fix was already given by Microsoft to safeguard the attack, but a tool to decrypt the affected PC has been recently published by security researchers.

In last few days, you might have heard about 'WannaCry' or 'WannaCrypt' ransomware which spread affected many systems across the globe. This was spread like a worm by using the Windows SMB vulnerability, which was patched in March.

You might become a victim, if you are not running Windows 10 and not yet patched your system with all the security updates that Microsoft released.