The ransomware problem has escalated at a steady pace over the last few years, with that upward slope punctuated by a few larger spikes as major incidents hit the headlines.

July’s Kaseya incident looks likely to be one of the biggest of those spikes, with at least 1000 and, by some reports, as many as 2000 small and medium businesses and organizations impacted. The subsequent disappearance of the perpetrators, the REvil ransomware-as-a-service group, from their various online locations is likely only ...