Ransomware victims are refusing to play ball with hackers 

Ransomware groups are having an increasingly hard time forcing victims to pay, according to new research.

According to figures from Databarracks’ 2025 Data Health Check report, just 17% of UK businesses are paying ransoms when breached, marking a steep decline on previous years.

In 2024, 27% of ransomware victims opted to pay to recover data, while in the year prior this stood at 47%, Databarracks found.

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