{"id":194847,"date":"2024-08-20T23:23:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T04:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/ransomware-rakes-in-record-breaking-450-million-in-first-half-of-2024"},"modified":"2024-08-20T23:23:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T04:23:41","slug":"ransomware-rakes-in-record-breaking-450-million-in-first-half-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/ransomware-rakes-in-record-breaking-450-million-in-first-half-of-2024","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware rakes in record-breaking $450 million in first half of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ransomware-rakes-in-record-breaking-450-million-in-first-half-of-20242.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ransomware victims have paid $459,800,000 to cybercriminals in the first half of 2024, setting the stage for a new record this year if ransom payments continue at this level.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, ransomware payments reached a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/ransomware-payments-reached-record-11-billion-in-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\">record $1.1 billion<\/a>, which Chainalysis previously predicted from stats gathered in the first half of the year when ransomware activity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/ransomware-payments-on-record-breaking-trajectory-for-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\">grossed $449,100,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We now stand at approximately 2% higher than 2023\u2019s record-breaking trajectory from the same period despite significant law enforcement operations that disrupted large ransomware-as-a-service operations, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/lockbit-ransomware-disrupted-by-global-police-operation\/\" target=\"_blank\">LockBit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ransomware victims have paid $459,800,000 to cybercriminals in the first half of 2024, setting the stage for a new record this year if ransom payments continue at this level. Last year, ransomware payments reached a record $1.1 billion, which Chainalysis previously predicted from stats gathered in the first half of the year when ransomware activity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}