{"id":9096,"date":"2025-12-11T02:03:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/ransomware-may-have-extorted-over-2-1-billion-between-2022-2024-but-its-not-all-bad-news-claims-fincen-report\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T02:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:03:49","slug":"ransomware-may-have-extorted-over-2-1-billion-between-2022-2024-but-its-not-all-bad-news-claims-fincen-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/ransomware-may-have-extorted-over-2-1-billion-between-2022-2024-but-its-not-all-bad-news-claims-fincen-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware may have extorted over $2.1 billion between 2022-2024, but it\u2019s not all bad news, claims FinCEN report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ransomware may have extorted over $2.1 billion between 2022-2024, but it\u2019s not all bad news, claims FinCEN report
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A new report from the United States’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has shone a revealing light on the state of the criminal industry of ransomware.<\/p>\n

The report, which examines ransomware incidents from 2022 to 2024, reveals that attackers extorted more than $2.1 billion over the three-year period.<\/p>\n

Yes, that number is enormous – but it hides a more interesting story beneath it: that after peaking in 2023, ransomware payments actually started to decline.<\/p>\n

Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ransomware may have extorted over $2.1 billion between 2022-2024, but it\u2019s not all bad news, claims FinCEN report A new report from the United States’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has shone a revealing light on the state of the criminal industry of ransomware. The report, which examines ransomware incidents from 2022 to 2024, reveals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2161,54,155,231],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-9096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fincen","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-ransomware","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}