How Can CISOs Respond to Ransomware Getting More Violent?

The article summarizes 2024–2025 ransomware trends: although overall ransom crypto payments declined, threat actors have become more aggressive—using physical threats, data destruction, regulatory blackmail, and repeated targeting—while successfully breaching a large share of organizations (identity systems were compromised in 83% of analyzed attacks). The report gives statistics on breach and payment rates, quantifies financial impact, describes common attacker techniques (infostealers, credential phishing, identity compromise), and advises CISOs to prioritize resilience through people, processes, and technology (patching, MFA, backups, tested incident response, and supplier controls).