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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...

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PREVENTATIVE RESOURCES

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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

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