For those who don’t know, these attacks don’t occur suddenly.
They start with constant pings to the company firewall looking for an open port.
This happens to ALL routers connected to the internet.
Most residential systems like Netgear and others don’t allow you to monitor who is attacking you nor are they frequently updated for new attack methods.
Most users are not aware that their home internet is attacked by hundreds of remote systems per day.
Many looking for an open port in your system.
This is what makes IOT so dangerous is adding one to your home network can create a hidden gateway into your internal network.
Can’t the operating system be set to only allow certain programs to encrypt files?