This culmination of more than six months' work is a comprehensive look at the ransomware, its peculiar attack method, and its sky high ransom demands By Andrew Brandt It strikes in the dead of night, timing the moment when it begins to encrypt every hard drive it can reach to when the fewest IT administrators or SOC staff are likely to be on duty. Victims find few, if any, traces of the infection,
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