Manufacturing Industry Hit the Hardest
The study reveals that the joint-most targeted sector is manufacturing, with a staggering 81% of firms hit with ransomware attempts in the last 12 months. 50% of these attacks were successful, with 63% of breached companies meeting the attackers’ demands. In 61% of cases, companies paid out between $500,000 and $1 million. Coming at second place is the healthcare industry, which continues to be plagued by data leaks and breaches as we move into the tail end of 2025.
Concerningly, 83% of breached manufacturing firms confirm that their identity infrastructure was compromised, while 39% were hit on more than one occasion. This indicates that paying a ransom won’t necessarily ward off further attacks.
The business disruption such attacks can cause is significant. It took between one day and one week for most afflicted manufacturing firms (63%) to resume normal operations, with a further 16% experiencing downtime for between one week and one month. They’re financially costly too, of course, with 61% of manufacturing organisations hit with a ransomware attack paying between $500,000 and $1,000,000 to the perpetrators.
With the vast majority of logistics firms (85%) currently operating at near-full capacity according to our latest industry report, these setbacks could have devastating effects on global supply chains.
