ByMegan Poinski,
Forbes Staff
andCIO,
Forbes Staff.
Ransomware used to be a popular trend in cyberattacks, but while cyberattacks are still pervasive, attackers have simplified their methods. New research from cyber risk company Resilience found that more than half of all cybersecurity claims in 2025—57.6%—involved just data theft: No encryption threat or ransom demand for its decryption. And theft-only attacks are becoming more common, rising 16% from the first half of 2025 to the second half of the year, when data theft accounted for nearly two-thirds of all attacks.
