Kaspersky Security Bulletin: Review of the Year 2017. 2017 was a year when many things turned out to be very different from what they initially seemed to be. Ransomware was a wiper; legitimate business software was a weapon. Advanced threat actors made use of simple tools while attackers farther down the food chain got their hands on highly sophisticated ones. These shifting sands of the cyberthreat landscape represent a growing challenge for security defenders. It will be interesting to see how this trend evolves over 2018.”]
Source: https://securelist.com/ksb-review-of-the-year-2017/83338/