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Ransomware leak sites listed 7,366 victims over the past year. That is 3% fewer than the year before. But… The data taken from those victims tells a different story. Among the 10 groups that leaked the most, combined exfiltration volume rose 275.8% to 896.2 terabytes. Several groups averaged more than a terabyte per victim. Those … Read more
In June, a stream went live on IGN’s official Twitch channel. Nobody at IGN had started it. A self-identified white hat hacker had taken over a senior video director’s Restream account. He launched the broadcast himself. The account’s credentials had been sitting in an infostealer dump for more than a month before anyone used them. … Read more
Two years ago, NetDiligence counted 15 ransom payments of $10m or more across its entire claims dataset. This year it counted 59. The sixteenth annual Cyber Claims Study, published on 15 September, analyses 10,309 real cyber insurance claims from incidents between 2021 and 2025, contributed directly by cyber insurers. Against the 2024 edition, which covered … Read more
It is a Tuesday morning in early 2027. At 9:04, a policyholder’s AI agent files a first notice of loss with your carrier. Forty seconds later, your own AI agent has triaged the claim, requested supporting evidence, summarised the file, and drafted a settlement recommendation. Fast. Frictionless. Fully auditable. And nobody has asked the question … Read more
Bitkom has published a single headline damage figure for German industry every year for a decade. This year it published two. The digital association put losses from data theft, industrial espionage, and sabotage at somewhere between €211bn and €270.8bn over the past twelve months. The reason for the corridor sits in the methodology note. Companies … Read more