Top 10 Cybercrime Facts of 2021

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Partnering with Bastionpoint Technology puts safeguards in place to help mitigate and protect not only your data but your money. Ransomware has been a smash hit for cybercriminals, breaking records in an unprecedented wave of cybercrime. Want to know the Top 10 Cybercrime Facts of 2021?

1. About 61% of organizations worldwide experienced a damaging ransomware incident in  2020. (37% of these attacks were to SMB’s)

2. Ransomware demands are already up by more than 40% in 2021.

3. About 85% of all ransomware attacks target Windows systems.

4. Ransomware impacted two in five SMBs in 2020.

5. Ransomware incident downtime has expanded to 23 days in 2021.

6. The average ransomware payment in the third quarter of 2020 was $233,817.

7. The average ransom demand has increased by 47% over 2020.

8. Ransomware accounted for 41% of cyber insurance claims filed in 2020.

9. More than 80% of reported security incidents are phishing-related.

10. Hackers attack every 39 seconds or at an average of 2,244 times a day.