City departments, hospitals, and shipping companies learned the hard way that ransomware will hold anyone’s data hostage Shortly after the WannaCry ransomware crypto worm finished swindling Microsoft Windows users out of billions in May 2017, the finger pointing game began. The US blamed North Korea, Twitter exploded with conspiracy theories, and everyone scrambled to secure their precious information using whatever methods seemed feasible. But then an unfamiliar variant of Petya nailed 80 global companies in a politically-motivated attack meant to throttle Ukraine. Analysts speculated this