Big game hunting adversaries named 572 technology entities on dedicated leak sites for extortion.

Financially motivated attacks accounted for 65% of all interactive operations against the technology sector.

US Tier-1 automotive supplier had approximately 1.9 TB of internal files publicly posted on an extortion site at the end of October 2025

German aftermarket parts and distribution business had 1.4 TB of internal data advertised on underground forums in December 2025

Individual extortion demands in healthcare reached as high as $4 million in the first half of 2025.

Nearly half of the active malware families have financial extortion capabilities, including ransomware that can encrypt files on the device.

28% of intrusions investigated resulted in data theft that bore indications of extortion.

Extortion demands to suppress stolen data comprise 49% of extortion claims in the first half of 2025 and 65% of extortion claims in the second half of 2025.

Encryption-based extortion declined by 15% compared to the previous year.

European organizations accounted for nearly 22% of global ransomware and extortion victims in 2025

63% of extortion targets experience scam attempts daily.

Nearly 9 in 10 extortion victims reported emotional harm because of the scam they experienced.

38% of Gen Z have been a target of sextortion.

58% of Gen Z have been targets of an extortion scam.

64% of extortion scam targets are Gen Z or Millennial.

One in six mobile users reported they've been a target of sextortion.

40% of targets of other types of mobile scams (i.e., not extortion) are Gen Z or Millennial.

65% of extortion scam victims are male.

28% of Gen Z have been victims of an extortion scam.

Seven in ten extortion victims say they are confident they can spot a scam.