There's a particularly nasty piece of ransomware in the wild just now. Bad Rabbit lures victims in by pretending to be a ubiquitous Adobe Flash installer. It then encrypts your files and demands ransom to decrypt them. A good friend of mine who works for Culver City, CA, told me that the Culver City accounting department got hit with ransomware a while back, and ended up spending five or six times the amount of ransom demanded to fix their computer system and network.
So back up your system and don't take candy from strangers.
Here are two articles that explain Bad Rabbit and what it does.
What Is Bad Rabbit? Ransomware Paralyzes Train Stations, Airports and Media in Russia and Europe
U.S. Warns of "Bad Rabbit" Ransomware That Hit Computers in Europe
Again, your best protection is backing up your system.
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