I came across this article at the Money.CNN.com website which isa fabulous Ransomware 101 you can send stright to your managementtogether with a request for budget for security awareness training:
"NEW YORK — Ransomware, a particularly annoying breed of computervirus, is spreading like the plague. This malware locks you outof your computer files until you pay up — and it is proving incrediblydifficult to exterminate.
A major ransomware operation called Cryptolocker was supposedlyhalted by the FBI in May. Not so fast, security experts say. It’sonly a setback.Cryptolocker used a massive network of hijacked computers called a“botnet” to spread the virus. The FBI, foreign law enforcement andprivate security companies teamed up to cut off communication betweenthat botnet and victims’ devices. They seized Cryptolocker’s serversand replaced...