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 24, 2026

In Other News: Dolphin X AI-Powered Malware, Car Anti-Theft Device Hack, 400 Linux Kernel Flaws

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Siemens ROX II industrial switch vulnerabilities, Russian Zimbra webmail espionage campaign,...

July 24, 2026

AegisAI Raises $36 Million for AI-Powered Email Security

The company has raised a total of $49 million in funding, including from Battery Ventures, Accel and Foundation Capital. The...

July 24, 2026

Industry Reactions to OpenAI Models Hacking Hugging Face: Feedback Friday

Industry professionals debate whether it represents a lab containment failure or an unprecedented agentic capability milestone. The post Industry Reactions...

July 24, 2026

Data Breach Confirmed After Australian Energy Giant Origin Is Hacked

A hacker claims to have stolen the information of 2 million Origin Energy customers and is threatening to leak it. ...

July 23, 2026

OpenAI Fixes ChatGPT Agent Flaw That Could Let Attackers Forge an AI Insider

AgentForger allows an attacker to create, insert and remotely control an invisible autonomous AI agent inside a victim organization. The...

July 23, 2026

Is Patching Dead? Vulnerability Management in the Post-Mythos Era

You cannot out-patch a machine that writes a working exploit from a vulnerability description in twenty hours. Stop trying to...

July 23, 2026

Chick-fil-A Accounts Get Fried in Credential Stuffing Attack

Threat actors used credentials obtained from other companies to hack into Chick-fil-A One accounts. The post Chick-fil-A Accounts Get Fried...

July 23, 2026

Abstract Raises $25 Million to Expand Composable Security Operations Platform

The latest investment round brings the total raised by Abstract to nearly $50 million. The post Abstract Raises $25 Million...

July 23, 2026

Nuclear-Sabotage Malware Benchmark Trips Up Most Frontier AI Models

SentinelOne’s new benchmark, built on the Fast16 case, shows which AI models can sustain a malware investigation and which cannot....

July 23, 2026

Upbound Group Says Data Breach Led to $13 Million in Fraudulent Contract Losses

Hackers recently obtained non-sensitive customer information and other documents from the company. The post Upbound Group Says Data Breach Led...

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