German Cyber Attack Losses Now Come With A Range.

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

Silent Push Now Sells Its Data To Other Vendors. The Insurance Case Is Still A Forecast.

Threat intelligence has a timing problem. Most of it arrives after the damage. An indicator of compromise is a receipt, not a warning. Silent Push announced on Aug. 4 that it will sell its underlying infrastructure data to other cybersecurity companies. The Reston, Virginia firm previously kept that data inside its own platform. Now product … Read more

Allianz Renames Cyber360 Protect to Scam Protect, Still Calls It Personal Cyber Insurance

Mark Twain once wrote that the difference between the almost-right word and the right word is “really a large matter—it’s the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.” Allianz just picked a side. Allianz Insurance Singapore renamed its personal cyber insurance product Aug. 12, according to a press release. Allianz Cyber360 Protect is now Allianz … Read more

Silent Push 6.0 Gives Cyber Underwriters Sharper Threat Intelligence

An IP address can lie about where it lives. It may read Oregon. The person behind it may sit in Pyongyang. Knowing where an attack truly starts is hard work. Silent Push built its platform on that gap. That early window is where cyber insurance threat intelligence pays off. This week, the firm launches version … Read more

Does Cyber Insurance Cover Scams? It Depends

You lose money to a scam. You assume something will cover it. A bank. A card. A cyber policy. Often, the money is just gone. That gap is wide and expensive. Scams drained more than $450 billion from people worldwide last year, according to Bitdefender’s new Global Scam Intelligence Report 2026. Many of those losses … Read more

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