According to the 2025 State of Ransomware Survey from CrowdStrike, 76% of global organisations struggle to match the speed and sophistication of AI-powered attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With 89% viewing AI-powered protection as essential to closing the gap, the findings underline that the future of stopping breaches will be decided by who holds the AI advantage \u2013 adversaries or defenders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFrom malware development to social engineering, adversaries are weaponising AI to accelerate every stage of attacks, collapsing the defender\u2019s window of response,\u201d said Elia Zaitsev, CTO at CrowdStrike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe 2025 State of Ransomware Survey reinforces that legacy defences can\u2019t match the speed or sophistication of AI-driven attacks. Time is the currency of modern cyberdefence and in today\u2019s AI-driven threat landscape, every second counts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Key findings from the 2025 State of Ransomware Report include: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Legacy defences fall behind: <\/strong>48% of organisations cite AI-automated attack chains as today\u2019s greatest ransomware threat, while 85% report traditional detection is becoming obsolete against AI-enhanced attacks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Speed defines the security outcome: <\/strong>Nearly half of organisations fear they can\u2019t detect or respond as fast as AI-driven attacks can execute, with fewer than a quarter recovering within 24 hours and almost 25% suffering significant disruption or data loss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Social engineering evolves with AI: <\/strong>Phishing remains a leading attack vector, with 87% saying AI makes lures more convincing and deepfakes emerging as a major driver of future ransomware attacks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Paying ransom fuels repeat attacks:<\/strong> 83% of organisations that paid a ransom were attacked again and 93% had data stolen regardless. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 The leadership disconnect:<\/strong> 76% report a gap between leadership\u2019s perceived ransomware readiness and actual preparedness, underscoring the need for board-level buy-in to modernise defences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to the 2025 State of Ransomware Survey from CrowdStrike, 76% of global organisations struggle to match the speed and sophistication of AI-powered attacks. With 89% viewing AI-powered protection as essential to closing the gap, the findings underline that the future of stopping breaches will be decided by who holds the AI advantage \u2013 adversaries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":134216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18762,5,13],"tags":[19142,19935,6048,1530,1043],"class_list":["post-134215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-enterprise-security","category-top-stories","tag-agentic-ai","tag-ai-security","tag-crowdstrike","tag-cybersecurity","tag-ransomware"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134217,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134215\/revisions\/134217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}