Getting an edge on your adversaries involves understanding their behaviors and their mindset. Rapid7 Labs took a look at internal and publicly-available ransomware data for Q1 2025 and added our own insights to provide a picture of the year thus far—and what you can do now to reduce your attack surface against ransomware.
The data highlights that businesses can’t afford to take their foot off the gas pedal when it comes to proactively tackling ransomware. Established threat actors and relative newcomers are taking an “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” approach, shunning unpredictability for proven revenue generation techniques. And, in almost all cases, the name of the game is data exfiltration and blackmail via leak site posts.
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Source: Rapid7
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