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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...

RECENT ATTACKS & NEWS

November 24, 2025

CISA Confirms Exploitation of Recent Oracle Identity Manager Vulnerability

CISA has added CVE-2025-61757 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The post CISA Confirms Exploitation of Recent Oracle Identity...

November 24, 2025

CrowdStrike Insider Helped Hackers Falsely Claim System Breach

The company has confirmed that it terminated an insider who shared screenshots of his computer with cybercriminals. The post CrowdStrike...

November 24, 2025

Microsoft Highlights Security Risks Introduced by New Agentic AI Feature

Without proper security controls, AI agents could perform malicious actions, such as data exfiltration and malware installation. The post Microsoft...

November 24, 2025

Mazda Says No Data Leakage or Operational Impact From Oracle Hack

The Cl0p ransomware group has listed Mazda and Mazda USA as victims of the Oracle EBS campaign on its leak...

November 24, 2025

Spanish Airline Iberia Notifies Customers of Data Breach

The company has notified its customers of the incident roughly a week after a threat actor claimed the theft of...

November 24, 2025

146,000 Impacted by Delta Dental of Virginia Data Breach

Names, Social Security numbers, ID numbers, and health information were stolen from a compromised email account. The post 146,000 Impacted...

November 24, 2025

Cox Confirms Oracle EBS Hack as Cybercriminals Name 100 Alleged Victims

More than 1.6 Tb of data allegedly stolen from Cox was made public by the hackers. The post Cox Confirms...

November 21, 2025

In Other News: ATM Jackpotting, WhatsApp-NSO Lawsuit Continues, CISA Hiring

Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: surge in Palo Alto Networks scanning, WEL Companies data breach...

November 21, 2025

Critical Oracle Identity Manager Flaw Possibly Exploited as Zero-Day

CVE-2025-61757 is an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability affecting Oracle Identity Manager. The post Critical Oracle Identity Manager Flaw Possibly...

November 21, 2025

Over 370 Organizations Take Part in GridEx VIII Grid Security Exercise

The number of participants in the cyber and physical grid security exercise increased by nearly 50% compared to two years...

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

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