In 2016, 49% of businesses fell victim to cyber ransom attacks. Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) extends hacking to would-be cybercriminals. 5-25% of all ransom collected goes to the original developers. The remaining income goes directly to the script kiddies who get a taste of easy criminal profits. In July 2016, it was estimated that criminals earned close to $200,000 to decrypt files locked by the Cerber ransomware. In 2017, its likely that we will continue to suffer from ransomware attacks.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3163526/ransomware-as-a-service-hacking-made-easy.html