'Ransomware' wave growing across United States
This is what government exists for, and like so much of the current one, it fails miserably at doing it. It would not be a hard thing to get the records needed to find the site where this came from, and go after them. International agreements be damned, this is an attack on our country. It is not the first, many government agencies have been done in and the idiots pay instead of having current backups they can fall back on. But if they went and found the criminals, took them out and shot them, I bet it would stop pretty quick. Pure BS that this can happen. Also to protect yourself, do NOT backup to a drive inside the PC, use a seperate backup drive and keep it disconnected. That way, you can always restore your files and flip these idiots the bird.