Why Ransomware Victims Still Pay — and How to Avoid the Ransom Altogether  

The report outlines how ransomware remains a dominant cybercrime despite increasing regulatory pressure to curb payments, citing 2025 DBIR statistics, the rise of data exfiltration over encryption, and growing attacker sophistication (AI-driven, fileless techniques, and exploitation of edge-device vulnerabilities). It argues that prevention is more sustainable than paying ransoms and presents Morphisec’s Preemptive Cyber Defense Platform—featuring Automated Moving Target Defense, exfiltration prevention, adaptive exposure management, and forensic recovery—as a means to block ransomware pre-entry and avoid extortion altogether.