Jane Frankland

MAY 18, 2025

This has given rise to Cybercrime-as-a-Service (CaaS) and Hacking-as-a-Service (HaaS)turnkey offerings that provide everything from ransomware kits to AI-generated malware and phishing campaigns. But when a cyberattack occursespecially one involving ransomware, data corruption, or advanced persistent threatsthat assumption breaks down.

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BH Consulting

JANUARY 30, 2025

Cyber risk remains top of mind for business leaders A regular January fixture, the World Economic Forums Global Risk Report 2025 features two technology-related threats among the top five risks for the year ahead and beyond. The report ranks risks by severity over two-year and 10-year timeframes.

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Trend Micro

JUNE 10, 2025

Move faster than your adversaries with powerful purpose-built XDR, cyber risk exposure management, and zero trust capabilities Learn more Extend Your Team Extend Your Team. Respond Faster. Respond Faster. Under Attack?

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Centraleyes

MARCH 20, 2025

Lets explore some notable use cases: Incident Response: A multinational company faced a ransomware attack that encrypted a portion of its servers. Dashboards and risk matrices provide security teams with a clear understanding of vulnerabilities, their potential impacts, and the progress of mitigation efforts.

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Trend Micro

JUNE 10, 2025

Move faster than your adversaries with powerful purpose-built XDR, cyber risk exposure management, and zero trust capabilities Learn more Extend Your Team Extend Your Team. Respond Faster. Respond Faster. Under Attack? 6 Alerts Back Unread All Inside the criminal mind: Trend’s deep dive into cybercrime.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 10, 2025

On the cybercriminal side, ransomware gangs and financially motivated hackers have embraced supply chain attacks as a force multiplier. Similarly, attackers have hit managed service providers (MSPs) with ransomware, knowing it can encrypt dozens of client networks downstream.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 13, 2025

The regulation requires an incident response plan outlining how to detect, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity events. Risk assessments must now include scenario-based testing, ensuring organizations can respond to real-world threats. Incident Response Plan If a breach occursits all about how you respond.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Despite a slowdown in “LockBit” ransomware activity due to law enforcement actions and a loss of affiliate trust, it remains a key player. Meanwhile, “RansomHub” is rising rapidly due to its attractive ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model. Despite the importance of employee training, sometimes it just isn’t enough.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 30, 2025

The cost and impact of cyber breaches Learn just how devastating a single cyber incident can be for a small or medium business, including real-world examples and financial impact analysis. Small business owners and executives who need to understand cyber risk in business terms. Number of small businesses in the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Sean Cairncross , who has no formal experience in technology or security, will be responsible for coordinating national cybersecurity policy, advising the president on cyber threats, and ensuring a unified federal response to emerging cyber-risks, Politico writes. The event featured images of Trump depicted as Caesar.

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 8, 2021

And even relatively rich organizations may fail altogether if they suffer the reputational harm that follows multiple serious cyber-incidents. Not only are they not protected against their own losses, but many have zero liability protection in the event that they somehow become a hacker’s catalyst for inflicting cyber-damage on others.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

IT services provider Sopra Steria estimates that a recent ransomware attack will have a financial impact ranging between €40M and €50M. At the end of October, French IT outsourcer Sopra Steria has been hit by a ransomware attack. The Group’s insurance coverage for cyber risks totals €30 million.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 17, 2022

Phishing emails are the most common vector for attacks on corporate networks, especially in ransomware and business email compromise (BEC) campaigns; anything that involves large groups of employees to continuously send updated file attachments or links to a reply-all list or an individual, creates cybersecurity issues.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Today’s columnist, Erin Kennealy of Guidewire Software, offers ways for security pros, the insurance industry and government regulators to come together so insurance companies can continue to offer insurance for ransomware. Insurance claims from cyber/ransomware events have consumed up to 40% of the claims of some insurers’ cyber books.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 18, 2024

When it comes to cybersecurity the same is true – you need a cyber security if you want to competently address cyber risk. Today, cyber attacks can not only cause financial disasters, they can literally kill people. As time passes, cyber risks continue to grow, and the need for such external advisors does the same.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2023

Researchers warn of a new ransomware family called CACTUS that exploits known vulnerabilities in VPN appliances to gain initial access to victims’ networks. The new ransomware operation has been active since March 2023, despite the threat actors use a double-extortion model, their data leak site has yet to be discovered.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 18, 2020

The Carnival Corporation, which has canceled cruises for months now as a result of COVID-19, says one of its cruise brands was hit with a ransomware cyberattack. What do we know about the Carnival Cruises ransomware attack? Ransomware attacks 2020: what do cybercrminals want? Hackers exfiltrated (removed) some data.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 20, 2024

Ransomware attacks have become a significant threat to organizations of all kinds worldwide, with attackers encrypting data and demanding payment for its release. In this regard, many have touted cyber insurance as the knight in shining armor, the end all-be all in terms of mitigating criminals' assaults on your network.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

Fitch Ratings published an alert last week to warn of the “material risk” to water and sewer utilities caused by cyber attacks that could also impact their ability to repay debt. Cyber risk is both a social risk in terms of safety and security, as well as a governance risk in terms of management effectiveness.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 5, 2023

The City of Dallas, Texas, was forced to shut down police communications and IT systems on Monday morning, May 1, due to a suspected ransomware attack. Subsequently, the City has confirmed that a number of servers have been compromised with ransomware, impacting several functional areas, including the Dallas Police Department Website."

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Instructor: Kip Boyle, vCISO, Cyber Risk Opportunities LLC Have you ever wondered how to use the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and apply it to your organization? Cyber Risk Mapping (CR-MAP) Conduct a step-by-step CR-MAP of your organization to identify vulnerabilities, create remediation plans, and minimize cyber risks.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

The explosion of ransomware and similar cyber incidents along with rising associated costs is convincing a growing number of insurance companies to raise the premiums on their cyber insurance policies or reduce coverage, moves that could further squeeze organizations under siege from hackers. In addition, the U.S.

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 7, 2024

The FBI will host an event exploring agricultural cyber risks in Omaha, Nebraska amid growing concerns of cyber attacks on US agriculture as farms embrace precision agriculture. The post At Nebraska Event, FBI Calls Out Cyber Threats To Agriculture appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F.

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Webroot

JULY 25, 2022

The first in-person event for RSA since the global pandemic had a slightly lower turnout than in years past (26,000 compared to 36,000 attendees). Here are some of the key trends which we observed at this year’s first marquee cybersecurity event post-pandemic: 1. Cyber insurance becomes mainstream discussion.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

As the risk of a cyberattack grows, it is pivotal to consider whether the directors of a company hit by a ransomware attack, for example, can bear any liability for negligence in failing to take steps to limit the risk. The size of the cyber risk to companies cannot be underestimated.

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Joseph Steinberg

AUGUST 5, 2021

While leveraging cyber-liability insurance has become an essential component of cyber-risk mitigation strategy, cyber-liability offerings are still relatively new, and, as a result, many parties seeking to obtain coverage are still unaware of many important factors requiring consideration when selecting a policy. .

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2022

Its rather mundane function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon, later. I’m referring to Security Information and Event Management ( SIEM ) systems and to firewalls. Log4j, for instance, is a ubiquitous logging library. Many more Gordian-knot issues that need to be dealt with, to be sure.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 23, 2022

In fact, the global volume of ransomware attacks increased by 151% in just the first six months of 2021, with the average cost of a breach recorded at US $3.6 In a recent attack on Nvidia, threat actors demanded product updates and open sourcing – a stark contrast from traditional monetary demands by ransomware groups.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Even events like the World Cup are being used by cyber criminals to target unsuspecting victims through things like fake streaming sites designed to steal private information. Sometimes, they will even ask the victim to buy gift cards, which they then redeem.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 30, 2021

It is not very often that a ransomware attack can actually cause physical harm to a person. Now, we are seeing it again with a ransomware attack that targeted Scripps Health. Scripps Health patients affected by ransomware. Scripps Health patients affected by ransomware. Class action lawsuits against Scripps Health.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

NOTE 1- The Guardian’s UK branch was the first to get targeted in the attack on December 20th,2022 and it was of ransomware variant. Therefore, the collaboration is said to use artificial intelligence to better detect network intrusions in an automated way that will improve cyber risk management of critical infra such as power utilities.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

New regulatory filings have exposed the skyrocketing costs of major cyber incidents, as big brands Clorox and Johnson Controls admitted collectively suffering more than $75 million in attack-related expenditures last year. Cleaning giant Clorox was struck by an unspecified cyber event discovered in August 2023.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 17, 2023

Cons of cyber insurance Cost: Cyber insurance can be expensive, particularly for organizations that are considered high-risk. The cost of the policy may outweigh the potential financial benefit in the event of a cyber incident. Can companies live without cyber insurance? Is it required?

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 30, 2021

It is not very often that a ransomware attack can actually cause physical harm to a person. Now, we are seeing it again with a ransomware attack that targeted Scripps Health. Scripps Health patients affected by ransomware. Scripps Health patients affected by ransomware. Class action lawsuits against Scripps Health.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Key Infrastructure and Critical Vulnerabilities: Attack Against Tata Power Highlights Cyber Risk to India’s Growing and Increasingly Connected Population. 1) In late October, Hive ransomware claimed the attack and began leaking data stolen from Tata Power on its website. (16) 12 , 13 , 15 ).

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 2, 2021

Swimlane, which launched in 2014 and is based in Denver, finds itself in the vanguard of cybersecurity vendors hustling to retool not just SOAR, but also security operations centers ( SOCs ,) security information and event management ( SIEM ) systems, and endpoint detection and response ( EDR ) tools.

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The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The post Episode 228: CISA’s Eric Goldstein on being Everyone’s Friend in Cyber. Related Stories Spotlight: When Ransomware Comes Calling Episode 227: What’s Fueling Cyber Attacks on Agriculture ? Read the whole entry. » » Click the icon below to listen. CISA: A Different Kind of Agency. Eric Goldstein (CISA).

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