My home PC was playing up this morning and I tried to restore a backup but it failed. Restarted and couldn't access my home network and I then noticed that some of my dropbox files were renamed with a .??elec extension. I opened another file and it was a ransomware message. I immediately pulled...

Last Friday, a piece of malware began doing the rounds in the UK, locking PC users out of their data unless they paid up a ransom in Bitcoin. It then spread to Spain and eventually more than 150 countries, affecting not just individuals, but also over 10,000 organizations including the UK’s...