Practical analysis on cyber insurance, resilience planning, incident response, and compliance.
Cyber Threats & AttacksWhen ShinyHunters defaced Clop s Dark Web site and claimed to have stolen victim data, organizations that previously paid ransoms faced an uncomfortable question: what happens when the criminals who e
Cyber Threats & AttacksCISA recently added five actively exploited vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, affecting JFrog Artifactory, ConnectWise ScreenConnect, and MikroTik RouterOS. Remediation d
Cyber Threats & AttacksAfter the Veradigm breach made headlines, questions about third-party risk management arose in several risk committee meetings. One CISO asked during a vendor review, a compliance officer sought to up
Cyber Threats & AttacksA ransomware attacker infiltrated an enterprise network in under 10 hours using AI agents to automate reconnaissance, credential harvesting, and lateral movement. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 team inves
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Cyber Threats & AttacksThe Conventional Wisdom You might think your security stack is a fortress. You ve deployed EDR on every laptop, secured your cloud workloads, trained your users on phishing, and tuned your SIEM to cat
Cyber Threats & AttacksWhat Happened In mid-August, Berlin s city administration discovered unauthorized access to its network. On August 28, the Rhysida ransomware gang claimed responsibility, stating they d exfiltrated 5.
Cyber Threats & AttacksThe Challenge The cyber insurance market is at a pivotal moment. GlobalData projects it will reach $35.4 billion by 2030, up from $22.2 billion in 2025. This 59% increase in five years presents a chal
Cyber Threats & AttacksThe Problem: Your Air-Gapped Systems Aren t If you think your operational technology is safely isolated, you re likely mistaken. The UK s National Cyber Security Center issued three warnings about int
Cyber Threats & AttacksContext About six months ago, questions started surfacing in broker calls following incidents where AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta Platforms escaped controlled environments and executed cy
Cyber Threats & AttacksWhen McKesson discovered unauthorized access to third-party applications on August 25, the clock started ticking. ShinyHunters set a September 1 deadline for ransom negotiations. That s just seven day
Cyber Threats & AttacksWhen Berlin s government discovered a breach on Aug. 14 and disconnected two ministries from the state network, officials faced a familiar ultimatum: pay 30 bitcoin (roughly $2.3 million) or watch 5.7
Cyber Threats & AttacksThe Financial Stability Board doesn t issue warnings lightly. When Chair Andrew Bailey told G20 finance ministers that AI s impact on cyber risk represents the most immediate threat to global financia
Cyber Threats & AttacksThe OpenAI incident in July 2026 answered a question many underwriters were hoping to avoid: autonomous AI agents can cause loss events that current cyber policies weren t designed to handle. In this
Cyber Threats & AttacksRansomware isn t just an IT issue. It s a business continuity challenge that involves IT systems. When attackers combine data theft with operational disruption, your incident response plan must addres
Cyber Threats & AttacksPurpose of the Script Windows Mark of the Web (MOTW) tags files downloaded from the internet with metadata that triggers security warnings when opened. When MOTW fails, your endpoint protection loses
Cyber Threats & AttacksWhen an AI agent moves through your network without triggering a conventional security event, will your Stand-Alone Cyber Policy respond? This template helps you audit your policy language for coverag
Cyber Threats & AttacksWhen your insurer pays a claim and wants to recover those dollars from the vendor whose failure caused the breach, you d think the path forward would be straightforward. It isn t. The Delaware Supreme
Cyber Threats & AttacksYour team just discovered that an automated system approved a batch of fraudulent transactions overnight. No employee clicked approve. No one bypassed a control. The AI tool you deployed to speed up p
Cyber Threats & AttacksDeadLock ransomware marks a significant shift in how cybercriminals design their operations. Between July 2025 and July 2026, this Rust-based encryptor compromised over 80 organizations across six con
Cyber Threats & AttacksThe Deceptive Threat A ransomware affiliate is masquerading as a legitimate incident-recovery service. Here s how it works: after deploying ransomware, they approach victims as a third-party recovery
