If you pay ransom, you may not get your data back and worse, you probably WILL get hit again – Cybereason Survey

The report highlights evidence from the NCA’s LockBit takedown and Cybereason’s 2024 research showing that organizations paying ransomware demands frequently suffer repeat breaches, often by the same or different actors, and that data recovery is not reliably clean. Key findings include that 82% of payers were breached again within a year and many were asked to pay more on subsequent incidents, reinforcing guidance to reject ransom payments.