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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

March 28, 2025

Critical Condition: Legacy Medical Devices Remain Easy Targets for Ransomware

Analysis found that 99% of healthcare organizations are vulnerable to publicly available exploits. The post Critical Condition: Legacy Medical Devices...

March 28, 2025

9-Year-Old NPM Crypto Package Hijacked for Information Theft

Nearly a dozen crypto packages on NPM, including one published 9 years ago, have been hijacked to deliver infostealers. The...

March 28, 2025

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March 28, 2025

MAR-25993211-r1.v1 Ivanti Connect Secure (RESURGE)

Notification This report is provided “as is” for informational purposes only. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does not provide...

March 28, 2025

CISA Releases Malware Analysis Report on RESURGE Malware Associated with Ivanti Connect Secure

CISA has published a Malware Analysis Report (MAR) with analysis and associated detection signatures on a new malware variant CISA...

March 28, 2025

New Issuance Requirements Improve HTTPS Certificate Validation

HTTPS certificate issuance now requires Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration and linting to improve validation. The post New Issuance Requirements Improve HTTPS...

March 28, 2025

Morphing Meerkat Phishing Kits Target Over 100 Brands

A threat actor tracked as Morphing Meerkat abuses DNS mail exchange (MX) records to deliver spoofed login pages. The post...

March 28, 2025

Fresh Grandoreiro Banking Trojan Campaigns Target Latin America, Europe

The Grandoreiro banking trojan has reemerged in new campaigns targeting users in Latin America and Europe. The post Fresh Grandoreiro...

March 28, 2025

Firefox Affected by Flaw Similar to Chrome Zero-Day Exploited in Russia

Firefox developers have determined that their browser is affected by a vulnerability similar to the recent Chrome sandbox escape zero-day....

March 27, 2025

Splunk Patches Dozens of Vulnerabilities

Splunk patches high-severity remote code execution and information disclosure flaws in Splunk Enterprise and Secure Gateway App. The post Splunk...

PREVENTATIVE RESOURCES

Governmental and Law Enforcement

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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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