GoKawiilRansomware's hidden costs dwarf ransom payments, new data shows
IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025 puts the average total cost of a ransomware incident at $5.08 million once downtime, remediation, legal work and business disruption are counted, while Verizon's 2026 DBIR pegs the median ransom payment at just $139,875. Datto's State of BCDR Report 2025 adds that while over 60% of organizations expect to recover within a day, only 35% actually do, and attackers increasingly target backup systems, forcing costly forensic and incident-response work when recovery options are compromised.