Ransomware and criminals that deploy it have most of us right where they want us. Most IT organizations are awful at IT hygiene, often leaving systems unpatched, not updated, and data not appropriately backed up. Most companies are easy targets for attackers because they only have to compromise one system to wreak havoc across an entire operation (as we saw with WannaCry only a few short months ago). Were seeing nation-state threat actors using ransomware code to infect companies or other governments.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3219709/the-reality-of-ransomware.html