News

CFC Offers a Heads Up on New SME Ransomware Threat

CFC, a specialist insurance provider and market leader in cyber, warned brokers and their clients today of an emerging method of ransomware attack – dubbed ‘BazarCall’ – which is targeting small businesses. According to CFC’s […]

Legal

SecurityHQ Report Looks at Cyber Threats to Legal Sector

Some research by SecurityHQ has revealed the extent of cyber attacks in the legal sector. Out of 40 practices investigated, ‘75% reported having been the victims of a cyber-attack’ and for ‘23 of those that […]

Emerging Risk

Risk: Ransomware Attacks Likely to Increase Says Databarracks

The latest from Databarracks, who see an increase in ransomware attacks on the horizon; US-Russia collaboration led to breakup of REvil ransomware group at start of year, but reappearance of gang and Ukraine conflict suggest […]

Global insurance trends

Two Thirds of Businesses Hit By Ransomware, Says Stockapps

According to new data presented by Stockapps.com, 66% of businesses were hit by ransomware in 2021. This marked a 78% increase from 2020s figures that stood at 37%. From the analysis, the increase in the ransomware-as-a-service […]

cyber insurance

Panaseer Looks at Cyber Insurance Landscape

Panaseer, an enterprise security company, today shares data on actions enterprises are willing to take to solve the escalating cyber insurance crisis. In recent years the cyber landscape has been dominated by a sharp increase […]

Opinion

BAE Systems Highlights Current Cyber Risks & Trends

Dan Alexander, head of threat intelligence for BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, and colleague Kyle Draisey, senior solutions architect, look at the cyber security risk trends facing businesses in the insurance and financial services sector in […]

Opinion

Will Merck’s Cyber Claim Win Change Policy Wording? Probably

In this Opinion piece, Peter Groucutt, Co-founder at Databarracks, looks at the impact of Merck’s win in a controversial cyber attack claim. Asymmetric war is one of those modish phrases which really covers a wide […]