Data from the “CyberCrime Report 2025” reportprepared by the research company Cybersecurity Ventures, are disturbing: Only within a decade the costs of hacker attacks incurred by individual countries, companies and ordinary citizens have increased over 3.5 times – from $ 3 trillion in 2015 to $ 10.5 trillion in 2025. It's 875 billion dollars monthly, 201 billion a week, 29 billion a day, 1.2 billion per hour, $ 20 million per minute and 333 thousand dollars per second.
Experts also estimate, that by 2031 they will reach $ 12.2 trillion. It would mean that each month the global economy will lose $ 1 trillion as a result of cybercriminals.
Cybercrime costs include damage and destruction of data, theft of money, loss of productivity, theft of intellectual property, theft of personal and financial data, embezzlement, fraud, disruption of activity after the attack, investigation of law enforcement agencies, restoring and removing hacked data and systems, image losses, legal costs, legal costs, as well
– mentions Steve Morgan, founder of Cybersecurity Ventures.
“Cyber Rica” is the third largest economy in the world
The authors of the report use the metaphor of “Cyber Rica” – a cyber criminal state with GDP 10.5 trillion dollars. Considering the data of the International Monetary Fund, it would be now The third largest economy in the world, only USA ($ 30 trillion – GDP forecast for 2025) and China ($ 19 dollars).
Due to inconsistent regulations and prosecution difficulties, cybercriminals' attacks are easy to carry out today, and at the same time difficult – and often impossible – to send by law enforcement
– emphasizes Dr. Eric Cole, a former hacker working for the CIA and the founder of the Secure Anchor consulting company.
Russians and Chinese rule underground
Two countries are particularly distinguished on the cybercrime map – Russia and China. The Russian hacker scene was defined by Trend Micro as “The most sophisticated, resistant and influential ecosystem in the global landscape of cybercrime”
Experts point to cultural factors and an education system that emphasizes mathematics and engineering as Causes of high level of technical skills among young Russians. Already before graduating from education, many of them have competences that allow the entry into the cybercrime underground, and some are already its active part.
As the experts of Trend Micro explain in their analysis, Russian hackers show a great flexibility – Quick adapt new technologies, change models actions And they expand the range of attacks, including for telecommunications infrastructure and IoT devices. Their effectiveness also increased as a result of economic sanctions imposed on Russia, which forced them to financial and logistics.
The Chinese cybercrime, as in the case of Russian groups supported by the Kremlin, is primarily of a state character. Chinese hackers concentrate often on infiltration foreign government institutionsindustrial and infrastructure, which was defined by the FBI as a threat to the US democracy and economy. An example would be a group Aquatic pandaaccused in March 2025 of global attacks on behalf of Chinese services.
As the authors explain “CyberCrime Report 2025”, Cybercrime also reflects geopolitical tensions. An example is even actions Hamas and Hutiwho use cryptocurrencies to finance armed activities, often with the support of foreign actors, including Russian hacker groups.
A disturbing phenomenon is also growing The number of so -called “Factory of fraud” in Southeast Asia, where criminals force people to work in inhuman conditions, conducting global phishing campaigns.
Cryptocurrency and AI
Record increases in Bitcoin's valuation and other cryptocurrencies that we have dealt with in recent years have made this branch of the global economy to become One of the favorite goals of hackers. The North Korean group plays the first violin here Lazaruswhich specialized in cryptocurrency theft. Their record jump from February 2025, in which $ 1.5 billion disappeared from the Bybit stock exchange, This is just one of many examples.
Cryptocurrency cybercrime not only increases – it undergoes a fundamental transformation
– the company writes Chainalysis in the Crypto Crime Report report. And estimates that in 2024 fraudsters got enriched by over $ 51 billion for cryptocurrency -based activities – This amount is comparable to the annual revenues of the pharmaceutical giant Novartis.
As Cybersecurity Ventures notes in his analysis, cryptocurrencies are not just a loot of fraudsters – they also became the main currency trading in the world of cybercrime. Law enforcement authorities regularly take on significant amounts of digital assets as part of actions aimed at criminal networks.
Cybercriminals, unfortunately, also reach more and more often for tools based on artificial intelligencewhich allow them to create much more refined, convincing and personalized phishing, disinformation or espionage campaigns. As the AI Security Report 2025 “report showsprepared by the Check Point Research, generative artificial intelligence It is increasingly used for activities such as social engineering using synthetic voices and images (Deep fake), “poisoning” teaching data for language models (so -called LLM poisoning) or generating malware
– The influence of AI on cybersecurity is obvious, and it will be more and more ” – warns Jill Poplka, CEO at Darktrace, quoted in the report – cybercriminals use it to make their attacks more precise, rocky and effective, and all this in shadow unstable situation geopoliticalwhich only increases uncertainty, “he adds.
Poland is still one of the favorite goals of hackers
Poland is still at the forefront of the countries most often attacked by hackers in the world – in some periods it was a leader of this ranking. Attacks on Polish state institutions and companies have intensified Especially after the outbreak of the full -glass war in Ukraine and are part of the broad information and psychological war waged by Russia. Objective? Destabilization of the state, causing social anxiety and weakening of citizens' trust in public institutions and critical infrastructure. In mid -April this year. The head of the Digitization Ministry Krzysztof Gawkowski informed about the next wave of Russian attacks aimed at Polish institutions.
The scale is huge. Today we had attacks on important institutions that look after supplying water and sewage to citizens. Poland is definitely in the state of digital war with Russia
– explained Gawkowski in the program “Facts After the facts “on TVN24. All Russia's attacks were thwarted, because – as the minister explained – Polish services” worked preventively. ”
Interestingly, Poland is also one of those countries that are the best They deal with hacker attacks. In 2024, our country came first in ranking National Cyber Security Index, which measures the degree of preparation of a given country for cyber incidents. This year we have fallen by several items, But we are still in the world's top – fourth place. Only Finland, Canada and the Czech Republic are ahead of us.