Average Ransom Payment Up 71% This Year, Approaches $1 Million

As thousands of cybersecurity practitioners gather in San Francisco for the annual RSA Conference, we thought it would be a good time to take a quick look at ransomware activity that we’ve seen so far in 2022.

The numbers are startling: The average ransomware payment in cases worked by Unit 42 incident responders rose to $925,162 during the first five months...