--- title: The State of Ransomware | daily.dev description: Check Point Research's Q1 2026 ransomware report documents 2,122 victims across 70+ active data leak sites, the second-highest Q1 on record. The most... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-state-of-ransomware-znlqyulhm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The State of Ransomware | daily.dev og:description: Check Point Research's Q1 2026 ransomware report documents 2,122 victims across 70+ active data leak sites, the second-highest Q1 on record. The most... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-state-of-ransomware-znlqyulhm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZNlqYUlhm.png og:image:alt: The State of Ransomware og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The State of Ransomware **[Check Point Research](https://daily.dev/sources/cpresearch)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Check Point Research's Q1 2026 ransomware report documents 2,122 victims across 70+ active data leak sites, the second-highest Q1 on record. The most significant structural shift is ecosystem consolidation: after two years of fragmentation, the top 10 groups now account for 71.1% of all victims. Qilin, Akira, The Gentlemen, and LockBit together claimed 41% of all victims. The Gentlemen emerged as a major new player, leveraging a stockpile of ~14,700 pre-compromised FortiGate devices and deliberately avoiding US targets. LockBit returned with version 5.0, showing a dramatic geographic shift away from US victims (down to 21.2% from historically 50%+). The report also highlights that country-level statistics are often shaped by a single actor's specific access inventory rather than broad threat landscape shifts, and that ransomware payment rates have fallen to historic lows despite rising victim counts. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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