<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true"><li>Sophos conducted a survey on ransomware attacks revealing that companies paid an average of 85% of ransom demands.</li><li>The median ransom demand has decreased to $1.3 million in 2025 from $2 million in 2024.</li><li>Despite governments implementing ransomware payment bans, nearly half of surveyed organizations opted to pay the ransom.</li><li>Data encryption levels are declining with less than half of ransomware attacks resulting in data encryption, posing risks to business operations.</li></ul>

Nearly half of companies say they pay up ransomware demands - but here's why that could be a bad idea

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