Cyberattacks on Humanitarian Orgs Jump Worldwide

**Executive summary:** Humanitarian, social-welfare, environmental, and journalism organizations are being targeted more frequently by state actors, hacktivists, and cybercriminals; Cloudflare and the CyberPeace Institute report a sharp increase in attacks—dominated by DDoS—with growing use of ransomware, application-layer exploits, and financial-fraud techniques such as deepfakes, while constrained budgets and limited cybersecurity expertise leave NGOs particularly vulnerable.