{"id":184449,"date":"2026-02-04T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/ransomware-damage-to-cost-the-world-74b-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T09:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:45:11","slug":"ransomware-damage-to-cost-the-world-74b-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/ransomware-damage-to-cost-the-world-74b-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware Damage To Cost The World $74B In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/ransomware-damage-to-cost-the-world-74b-in-2026\/\">Ransomware Damage To Cost The World $74B In 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/ransomware-damage-to-cost-the-world-74b-in-2026\/\">https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/ransomware-damage-to-cost-the-world-74b-in-2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-04 09:09:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cybersecurityventures.com\">cybersecurityventures.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points.<br \/>\nCybersecurity Ventures publishes a chart at\u00a0RansomwareCost.com\u00a0containing our calculations of global ransomware damage cost predictions from 2015 to 2031.<br \/>\nFor this year, 2026, we predict that ransomware costs will reach\u00a0$74 billion annually. The 2026 calculation breaks down to $6.2 billion per month, $1.42 billion per week, $203 million per day, $8.5 million per hour, $141,000 per minute, and $2,400 per second.<br \/>\nOur first ever prediction, for 2015, put the annual cost of ransomware at $325 million. Another way to look at it is that we predict\u00a0ransomware will cost the world more than $20 billion per month in 2031, up from $20 billion per year in 2021.<br \/>\nRansomware costs\u00a0include ransom negotiations and payouts, damage and destruction of data, stolen money, downtime, lost productivity, theft of intellectual property, theft of personal and financial data, embezzlement, fraud, post-attack disruption to the normal course of business, forensic investigation, restoration and deletion of hacked data and systems, reputational harm, legal costs, and potentially, regulatory fines.<br \/>\nRead the Full Story<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ransomware Damage To Cost The World $74B In 2026 https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/ransomware-damage-to-cost-the-world-74b-in-2026\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-04 09:09:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/photo25.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-184449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184451,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184449\/revisions\/184451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}