Quite literally if you are not careful: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ransomware-victims-suffer-repeat-attacks-new-report/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ransomwar

Quite literally if you are not careful: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ransomware-victims-suffer-repeat-attacks-new-report/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ransomware-victims-suffer-repea... I expect the 80% figure to be rather inflated, unless they are talking about attempted attacks and not just successful second attacks, but paying the ransom in no way means you won't be attacked again. Though thinking about it, if it were only attempted attacks I'd expect the figure to be 100% - criminal types are not known for leaving a potential easy mark alone! If they don't re-attack themselves then they could at least sell or swap to another group information about the potential target (or another group could just catch news on the grapevine).