Ransomware is a term that first appeared in the news in 2013, and has been showing up more and more frequently ever since. Think back to May 2017, when the entire United Kingdom health services network was briefly hijacked...yes, that was ransomware. If this term hasn’t blipped on your radar yet, it really should. That’s because cyber security experts all agree that ransomware attacks will be one of the most prevalent forms of online theft from 2018 onward. But before we get too apocalyptic, let’s take a step back to understand what ransomware is and where it comes from…