RansomwareClock.org

Reported Cost of Ransomware Attacks 2025 YTD

Aggregated Estimate from Public and Private Sources, Reflects Reported Attacks Only. Actual cost estimated to be significantly higher.

The forecast for cybercrime in 2024 is harsh with attacks increasing in frequency, sophistication, and severity. We must work together to protect our companies and communities from the financial, operational, and emotional trauma of cyber-attacks.

Cyber Stats

$1.85m

average cost for remediation, business downtime, lost orders, operational costs, etc. 2X vs year ago. Recovery cost is 10X the size of the ransom payment. Sophos, The State of Ransomware 2021

93%

consider an organization's trustworthiness prior to purchasing. 59% would avoid doing business with a company cyberattacked in the past 12 months. Arcserve 2020 Survey

11 seconds

a new ransomware attack hits this year. Cybersecurity Ventures. (In the time it takes you to read this cyber stat, another business has been hit with a ransomware attack.)

207 days

days is the average time to identify a breach. Meaning the bad guys are in your system for over 6-months. IBM Security Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020.

Only 21%

of security professionals think their current security controls are adequate. Forrester State of Enterprise IoT Security in North America

21 days

days is the average downtime caused by a ransomware attack. Coveware Q4, 2020

Spotlight

CISA

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was founded in 2018 and is a standalone United States federal agency, organized under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It exists to...

RECENT ATTACKS & NEWS

July 20, 2026

Neo Emerges From Stealth With $100M to Control and Secure Enterprise AI Software

Neo raised money across seed and Series A funding rounds from Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, and others. The post...

July 20, 2026

SonicWall Zero-Days Exploited to Deliver Custom Malware for Weeks Before Patch

The zero-days CVE-2026-15409 and CVE-2026-15410 were exploited by a threat actor tracked by Volexity as UTA0533. The post SonicWall Zero-Days...

July 20, 2026

OpenSSL Silently Fixes ‘HollowByte’ DoS Vulnerability

Attackers could send waves of malicious payloads to trigger buffer pre-allocations that are not freed, exhausting server memory. The post...

July 20, 2026

New Index Tracks Material Breaches — And Refuses to Add Up the Losses

Longtime cybersecurity executive Richard Bird built the resource for security experts, journalists, policymakers, and everyday citizens. The post New Index...

July 20, 2026

Ernst & Young Data Breach Affects Personal, Financial Information

Hackers stole names, addresses, Social Security numbers, credit/debit card numbers, and other information from a third-party management platform. The post...

July 20, 2026

Capital One Open Sources AI-Powered ‘VulnHunter’ Security Tool

The agentic security tool identifies potentially exploitable code flaws, traces attack paths, and recommends targeted remediations. The post Capital One...

July 20, 2026

Hugging Face Hacked in Autonomous AI Attack

Targeting production infrastructure, the attack compromised internal datasets and service credentials. The post Hugging Face Hacked in Autonomous AI Attack...

July 20, 2026

Chrome 150 Update Patches Severe Memory Safety Bugs

The fresh security update resolves six critical and high-severity use-after-free vulnerabilities. The post Chrome 150 Update Patches Severe Memory Safety...

July 20, 2026

WP2Shell WordPress Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild

Exploitation of the new WordPress vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2026-60137 and CVE-2026-63030 started soon after disclosure. The post WP2Shell WordPress Vulnerabilities...

July 17, 2026

In Other News: Iran Tracks US Military Phones, CrashStealer macOS Malware, CVD Blueprint

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: OpenClaw AI agents exploited via WhatsApp, ransomware hits naval defense firm...

PREVENTATIVE RESOURCES

Governmental and Law Enforcement

Legal Matters

Insurance Resources

In Case of Cyber Attack Emergency

If a ransomware incident occurs at your organization, CISA, FBI, and NSA recommend the following actions:

Follow the Ransomware Response Checklist on p. 11 of the CISA-Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) Joint Ransomware Guide
Scan your backups. If possible, scan your backup data with an antivirus program to check that it is free of malware.
Report incidents immediately to CISA at https://us-cert.cisa.gov/report, a local FBI Field Office, or U.S. Secret Service Field Office
Apply incident response best practices found in the joint advisory from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States on Technical Approaches to Uncovering and Remediating Malicious Activity.

Contact your Local FBI Office - https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices

Report a Complaint to the FBI’s Internet Criminal Complaint Center: www.IC3.gov

Technical Expertise/Crisis Communications

RansomwareClock.org

RansomwareClock.org

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2022

RansomwareClock.org

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2021