Ransomware Report 2025: Building Resilience Amid a Volatile Threat Landscape

Ransomware attacks continue to spread and, thanks to the emergence of AI and LLMs, have become both more sophisticated with greater scale. In turn, ransomware as a service (RaaS) groups are evolving their tactics, particularly when it comes to extortion. Get Akamai’s latest State of the Internet research report to learn about:

  • How ransomware groups used the TrickBot malware to extort more than US$724 million in cryptocurrency
  • The rise in extortion, including distributed denial of service (DDoS) and compliance as extortion tools
  • Regional ransomware trends
  • The intersection of cryptomining and ransomware
  • Mitigation tactics