Zero-day exploits drive 143% rise in ransomware victims

A report by cloud firm Akamai claims that a behaviour shift by hacker groups away from phishing and towards abuse of vulnerabilities over the past 6 months has led to a rise in the number of victims.
The report – with the catchy title of ‘Ransomware on the Move: Evolving Exploitation Techniques and the Active Pursuit of Zero-Days’ – throws out an array of statistics involving the current trends around cyber attacks – including the claim that there was a 143% YoY inc