Top 20 Ransomware Statistics You Should Know (2025)

This report compiles 20 key ransomware statistics for 2025, showing ransomware’s rising role in breaches, declining ransom demands and payments, faster recovery times, and a pivot from pure encryption to data theft and double extortion. It highlights vulnerability exploitation, credential abuse, and phishing as leading initial access vectors; notes sector concentration in manufacturing, business services, and healthcare; and tracks an expanding extortion ecosystem with Akira and Qilin among prevalent strains. Overall, organizations are paying less and recovering more effectively, but operational, legal, and reputational costs remain high, reinforcing the need for strong patch management, identity security, phishing defenses, and visibility into active ransomware groups and leak-site activity.