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Recent Statistics & Reports

The number of publicly disclosed victims saw a 25% increase from the previous year (between April 2024 and March 2025)2. This follows an 81% surge in the period before that.

5/13/2025
Ransomware

Publicly disclosed ransomware victims climbed to 6,046. This represents a 24% increase year over year for publicly disclosed victims. The victim count has also more than doubled since 2023.

5/13/2025
Ransomware

There has been a 123% increase in ransomware attacks over two years.

5/13/2025
Ransomware

Over 20,000 of the disclosed CVEs in 2024 had a CVSS score of 7.0 or higher.

4/8/2025
CVEsCVSSVulnerabilities

Over 4,400 of the disclosed CVEs in 2024 were classified as critical (CVSS 9.0+).

4/8/2025
CVEsCVSSVulnerabilities

There was a 38% year-over-year increase in published CVEs.

4/8/2025
CVEsVulnerabilities

Over 40,000 CVEs were disclosed in 2024.

4/8/2025
CVEsVulnerabilities

A significant portion of vulnerabilities were weaponized within days of disclosure.

4/8/2025
CVEsVulnerabilities

Many of 2024's most exploited vulnerabilities were found in widely used third-party software rather than internally developed applications

4/8/2025
CVEsVulnerabilitiesThird-party

There were 66 ransomware healthcare victims in Q1 2024, 87 healthcare victims in Q2 2024, 99 healthcare victims in Q3 2024, and 121 healthcare victims in Q4 2024.

1/1/2025
RansomwareHealthcare

The healthcare sector is the third-most targeted sector for ransomware attacks, following manufacturing and professional services.

1/1/2025
RansomwareHealthcareManufacturing

There was a significant rise in healthcare ransomware attacks in 2024. From Q1 2023 to Q3 2023, healthcare was the 6th or 7th most targeted sector, but it jumped to third position in Q4 2023 and has remained there.

1/1/2025
RansomwareHealthcare

Types of healthcare providers targeted in 2024 were: Physicians' offices accounted for 25% of attacks, general medical and surgical hospitals accounted for 22% of attacks, other health professionals' offices (outpatient centres, family services etc) accounted for 9% of attacks, and dentists' offices accounted for 6% of attacks.

1/1/2025
RansomwareHealthcare

General medical and surgical hospitals are the second-most-targeted industry group by ransomware, making up 22% of healthcare victims, followed by other health professionals offices, such as dentists and outpatient centres.

1/1/2025

There was a total of 374 tracked healthcare ransomware attacks in 2024.

1/1/2025
RansomwareHealthcare

Physicians' offices comprise 25% of ransomware victims.

1/1/2025

Only 37.4% of healthcare ransomware victims reported attacks to the HHS in 2023.

1/1/2025
RansomwareHealthcareHHS

There was 211 US healthcare ransomware victims in 2023 and 268 in 2024, a 27% increase.

1/1/2025
RansomwareHealthcareUS

There were 66 ransomware healthcare victims in Q1 2024, 87 healthcare victims in Q2 2024, 99 healthcare victims in Q3 2024, and 121 healthcare victims in Q4 2024.

1/1/2025
RansomwareHealthcare

Ransomware groups Everest and Monti has 25% and 20.8%, respectively, of their victims in healthcare.

1/1/2025

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