I think we're seeing two things: increased reporting because of increased interest and an actual uptick in actual ransomware attacks. The rate of attack isn't n

I think we're seeing two things: increased reporting because of increased interest and an actual uptick in actual ransomware attacks. The rate of attack isn't necessarily increasing with the rate of increase in reporting but both are up YoY. For increased interest, the Colonial Pipeline shut down had huge far reaching affects beyond the cost to the company. News of the situation reached beyond tech wonks. It also impacted tons of people not directly related to CPC. To the uptick in successful attacks, the increase in working from home probably has a lot to do with it. A virus that wouldn't make it past an enterprise firewall will more easily hit some user at home. They then connect to the corporate VPN for work and bridge past a lot of firewalls and IDSes. Companies they might have decent network security are poking a lot of holes to handle people WFH that never had previously. Joe from Accounting that's a wiz in Excel but falls for every phishing e-mail that hits his inbox is a bigger problem WFH than when at the office. He's a match in a powder mill when he connects to the corporate VPN from his malware riddled home PC. Was he not supposed to install totallylegitzoominstaller.exe from totesthisiszoom.ru?