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Nearly every cyber insurance applicant now says yes to MFA. A new paper says underwriters should ask whether it is phishing-resistant MFA, and on which accounts. A manufacturer required multi-factor authentication (MFA) on every account. It still lost £150,000. The firm allowed text-message codes as the second factor. An attacker used an adversary-in-the-middle attack to … Read more
The U.S. cyber insurance market wrote about $9.46 billion in premium in 2025, up 3.5%, state regulators report. Claims rose 20%. The loss ratio climbed to 53 as rates fell for an eighth straight quarter. Losses in the U.S. cyber insurance market are rising while prices keep falling. That is the central finding of an … Read more
AI models are finding software flaws at a record pace, Cisco Talos says. Additions to the list of known exploited vulnerabilities grew far more slowly. Talos expects the surge to level off once AI works through old code. Published software vulnerabilities rose 105% from a year earlier, Cisco Talos researchers wrote on Oct. 20. Additions … Read more
Major cyberattacks cost victims far more than cyber insurance claims record, new Cyberwrite research finds. Several small firms in its cases closed for good. The company says insurers should size limits to the full economic loss. Cyber insurance claims capture only part of what an attack costs. New research from Cyberwrite measures how far the … Read more
Two in five security leaders in a Tevora poll say their company puts AI innovation ahead of security. Only 16% say security comes first. Now insurers are asking about AI oversight. Companies are adopting AI fast and bringing security in late, according to Tevora’s 2027 CISO Trends Report. Chief information security officers (CISOs) often arrive … Read more