# Ransomware Continues To Pile on Costs For Critical Infrastructure Victims 💸

**URL:** <https://onehack.st/t/ransomware-continues-to-pile-on-costs-for-critical-infrastructure-victims/287141>\
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**Tags:** hacking\
**Created:** [July 17, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/ransomware-continues-to-pile-on-costs-for-critical-infrastructure-victims/287141 "2024-07-17T16:13:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/ransomware-continues-to-pile-on-costs-for-critical-infrastructure-victims/287141/1 "2024-07-17T16:13:18Z")

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**Summary:**

1. **Ransom Payments Surge** : Sophos’ latest report reveals median ransom payments by critical national infrastructure (CNI) organizations surged to $2.54 million in the past year, a 41-fold increase from last year’s $62,500. The mean payment also rose to $3.225 million.

2. **Sector Disparities** : IT, tech, and telecom sectors paid the least, averaging $330,000, while lower education and federal government organizations faced the highest average payments at $6.6 million.

3. **Recovery Costs** : Recovery costs also spiked, with some CNI sectors’ costs quadrupling to a median average of $3 million per incident. The energy and water sectors experienced the sharpest increase, now averaging four times the global cross-sector median of $750k.

[Read more on Sophos](https://sophos.com)