2016 set a new bar for high-profile cybercriminal activity. 80% of organizations have reported high or critical-severity exploits against their infrastructure, and nearly 10% recorded ransomware activity during Q1. The vast majority of these cyberattacks target vulnerabilities that are five years old, with some predating this millennium. The rule of thumb is if you cant secure it, get rid of it, you can’t get its out of the patch cycle and yet persist in the network.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3199865/cybercrime-trends-faster-bigger-smarter.html