{"id":280983,"date":"2026-06-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/ransomware-attacks-grew-in-2025-as-traditional-data-breaches-fell\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T23:40:15","slug":"ransomware-attacks-grew-in-2025-as-traditional-data-breaches-fell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/ransomware-attacks-grew-in-2025-as-traditional-data-breaches-fell\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware attacks grew in 2025 as traditional data breaches fell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/ransomware-data-breaches-ai-bitsight\/823649\/\">Ransomware attacks grew in 2025 as traditional data breaches fell<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/ransomware-data-breaches-ai-bitsight\/823649\/\">https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/ransomware-data-breaches-ai-bitsight\/823649\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-24 12:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cybersecuritydive.com\">www.cybersecuritydive.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span><span><span><strong><span><span>Dive Brief:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>The number of ransomware attacks that hackers claimed on dark-web leak sites rose by nearly one-fifth in 2025, to 6,883, while the total number of leak sites increased by roughly one-third, to 115, the security firm <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Bitsight said in its annual \u201cState of the Underground\u201d report<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>Ten groups \u2014 five of them associated with Russia \u2014\u00a0were responsible for roughly 58% of attacks, according to the report, suggesting a remarkable concentration of activity.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>Roughly 60% of ransomware victims were in the U.S., with the manufacturing sector topping the list.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span><span><span><strong><span><span>Dive Insight:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>While ransomware attacks surged, traditional data breaches fell by 41% in 2025 compared with the previous year. Bitsight cautioned, however, that the decline was likely the result of reporting gaps and evolving threat-actor behavior rather than a reduction in risk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>\u201cAttacker focus shifted toward domino-effect targets, including critical infrastructure and defense, government, and utilities,\u201d researchers wrote.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Educational institutions<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span> experienced the most data breaches in 2025, with 505, followed by government (475) and IT (469). That represented a significant shift from 2024, when IT topped the list, with 1,210 breaches.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The data-breach landscape in 2025 was \u201cless dominated by a single sector and more distributed across industries with personally identifiable information (PII) and operational and supply chain importance,\u201d Bitsight said in its report.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>As AI tools have become a more useful tool for defenders, they have also become <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>increasingly valuable<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span> to hackers. On the cybercrime forums and Telegram channels that Bitsight monitors, the company tracked 5.1 million mentions of Google\u2019s Gemini platform, 1.4 million mentions of OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT service, 656,000 mentions of Anthropic\u2019s Claude tool and 697,000 mentions of xAI\u2019s Grok chatbot.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Misconfigured and poorly secured AI platforms also represent weak spots in&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/ransomware-data-breaches-ai-bitsight\/823649\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ransomware attacks grew in 2025 as traditional data breaches fell https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/ransomware-data-breaches-ai-bitsight\/823649\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-24 12:00:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":280984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imgproxy.divecdn.com\/_x3kjCdrqx9yavyXhLn3q8-uux3KwFTYf3hmCmj5dRs\/g:ce\/rs:fit:770:435\/Z3M6Ly9kaXZlc2l0ZS1zdG9yYWdlL2RpdmVpbWFnZS9SYW5zb213YXJlR2V0dHlJbWFnZXMtMjAyMjY4OTI5M19jb3B5X0dMRk5oclQuanBlZw==.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,30,57],"class_list":["post-280983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-breach","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280985,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280983\/revisions\/280985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}