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S1:E11 - Ransomware appeared in 48% of all breaches in 2025, up from 44% the previous year, but the median ransom payment declined to $139,875 in 2025, down from $150,000
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Ransomware remains the dominant breach pattern in cybersecurity, but the trajectory beneath that headline is more encouraging than most practitioners realize. Bipin Prakash joins Paul Marco for a wide-ranging, education-grounded conversation about ransomware economics, the shifting threat surface from email to browser, the sophistication of modern social engineering, and why the industry’s default pessimism may be masking real defensive progress.
The episode works through two complementary findings from the 2026 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. The first: ransomware…
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