Top 10 Shocking Ransomware Stats

Ransomware is the most successful criminal activity occurring on the planet!  Every day cybercriminals are collecting BILLIONS in payments from businesses and individuals who were unprepared or just too scared to lose their critical data.

  1. Hackers attack every 39 seconds or at an average of 2,244 times a day.
  2. The average ransomware payment in the third quarter of 2020 was $233,817.
  3. The average ransom demand has increased by 47% over 2020.
  4. Ransomware demands are already up by more than 40% in 2021.
  5. About 85% of all ransomware attacks target Windows systems.
  6. Ransomware incident downtime has expanded to 23 days in 2021.
  7. Ransomware impacted two out of every 5 Small and Medium Businesses in 2020. (11 Million Businesses)
  8. 61% of organizations worldwide experienced a damaging ransomware incident in 2020.
  9. Ransomware accounted for 41% of cyber insurance claims filed in 2020.
  10. More than 80% of reported security incidents are phishing related.

 

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