By Mark Jones – It doesn’t matter if you’re working on a home computer with lots of sensitive documents and family photos, or if you’re a small business owner with years of client files and tax records. You’re likely storing more data than you realize.

Cybercriminals know you value your files, so they threaten you with ransomware. The most common way to fall victim is through phishing attacks from malicious links or corrupt documents. If you don’t pay, there goes all your data. Worse, you can pay and the criminal could delete it anyway.

Ransomware strains can cripple tons of systems all over the globe — it just depends on how successful the distribution campaign is behind the strain.

Emsisoft recently published a report detailing global ransomware stats for Q2 and Q3 of 2019. The report is based on data submitted to the company between April 1 and September 30. It includes more than 230,000 submissions. Read On: