IT Security Guru
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Cyber insurers are losing money. Their loss ratios – total claims plus the insurer’s costs, divided by total premiums earned – are now consistently above 60%, which presents something of an existential threat to the insurance industry, making cyber risk a potentially uninsurable area due to falling profitability.
SC Magazine
MAY 24, 2021
Overall, insurance companies seem to be responding to increased demand from clients for cyber-specific insurance, and one survey found that the two things most likely to spur a purchase of cyber insurance are when a business experiences a cyber attack and when they hear about other companies being hit by a cyber attack.
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SC Magazine
MAY 19, 2021
That in itself has evolved, as insurers and insured learn just how expensive that fallout can be. The ransomware reality check for insurers. Prior to 2017, most insurers covered ransomware under traditional property and casualty policies. NotPetya changed that. ” Conflicting interests?
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017. But most of this language has not yet been tested by insurers trying to deny claims.
The Security Ledger
AUGUST 20, 2019
Related Stories Episode 155: Disinformation is a Cyber Weapon and APTs warm to Mobile Malware Podcast Episode 117: Insurance Industry Confronts Silent Cyber Risk, Converged Threats NotPetya Horror Story Highlights Need for Holistic Security. But NotPetya was important for other reasons, as well.
CyberSecurity Insiders
JANUARY 26, 2022
Merck, the Pharma giant from New Jersey, has won a legal battle with its insurer for covering costs related to the NotPetya ransomware attack that crippled its computer networks to the core incurring losses in millions. Moving ahead into the details, the year 2017 witnessed many companies falling prey to NotPetya ransomware hackers.
Malwarebytes
JANUARY 26, 2022
Due to the evolving and growing impact of cybersecurity incidents there are some questions starting to arise about the way that insurance companies deal with the costs that are the results of such incidents. But cyber insurance comes in different flavors and sizes. Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. Merck suffered US$1.4
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