{"id":1003204,"date":"2026-04-16T10:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003204"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:30:15","slug":"majority-of-indian-firms-hit-by-ransomware-in-2025-pay-over-rs-12-crore-on-average-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/16\/majority-of-indian-firms-hit-by-ransomware-in-2025-pay-over-rs-12-crore-on-average-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Indian firms hit by ransomware in 2025 pay over Rs 12 crore on average: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of Indian firms that were hit by ransomware in 2025 paid a ransom of over Rs 12 crore on average, cybersecurity firm Check Point Software Technologies said in a report. <\/p>\n<p>As per the report findings, India has emerged as the Asia-Pacific epicentre of ransomware activity, with manufacturing organisations witnessing a marked rise in frequency and impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of Indian firms that were hit by ransomware in 2025 paid a ransom of over Rs 12 crore on average, cybersecurity firm Check Point Software Technologies said in a report. As per the report findings, India has emerged as the Asia-Pacific epicentre of ransomware activity, with manufacturing organisations witnessing a marked rise in frequency and impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}