With ransomware attacks on the rise in recent years, protecting your business is more important than ever. Understanding how a ransomware attack occurs is the first step to safeguarding your business from malicious actors.They can evolve organically, spawn from other groups or emerge from reorganized notorious gangs. Big-time ransomware gangs recruit affiliates and provide them with proprietary malware to launch attacks.While ransomware gangs can attack virtually any industry, some industries, such as education, municipalities, healthcare, infrastructure and financial services, have proved to be lucrative targets over the past few years.