Over half (52 per cent) of cyberattacks with known motives were driven by extortion or ransomware, according to the sixth annual microsoft digital defense report, which covers cybersecurity trends from july 2024 to june 2025 Cyberattacks are surging in both scale and sophistication, and financial motives now drive most of this activity, according to microsoft’s digital defense report 2025 Microsoft’s 2025 digital defense report shows over half of global cyberattacks are driven by extortion or ransomware, fueled by financial motives.
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According to the latest microsoft digital defense report, written with our chief information security officer igor tsyganskiy, over half of cyberattacks with known motives were driven by extortion or ransomware
That’s at least 52% of incidents fueled by financial gain, while attacks focused solely on espionage made up just 4%.
