Last mentioned: Mar 25, 2026
Record Low Reached
Payment rates hit an all-time low of 28% despite a surge in total attack volume.
Resilience Milestone
Payment rates drop below 40% for the first time as backup adoption matures.
Colonial Pipeline Aftermath
Increased law enforcement scrutiny and sanctions begin to discourage ransom payments.
Peak Payment Rates
Over 80% of victims were paying ransoms as encryption tactics were highly effective.
The percentage of ransomware victims opting to pay ransoms has plummeted to an all-time low of 28%, even as the total volume of attacks continues to climb. This trend signals a major shift in corporate resilience and a growing refusal to fund the cybercriminal ecosystem.
This page surfaces every story mentioning OFAC across our cybersecurity coverage. We track each entity's appearance over time so readers can trace how the narrative evolves — which developments are isolated incidents, which build into longer arcs, and which reframe how operators in the space think about the entity. Story selection uses the same multi-source verification gate applied across the rest of our coverage.
Read our editorial methodology for how we identify, deduplicate, and score entity references. Our glossary defines the technical terms used across stories on this page, and our trends index contextualizes individual developments against the longer-running cybersecurity beat. Cross-entity comparisons live on our compare view.
| What you see | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Story count | Number of distinct stories where OFAC was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |