Cybersecurity

Extortion and Ransomware Drive Over Half of Cyberattacks, Microsoft Warns in 2025 Digital Defense Report

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Hero image for Microsoft’s 2025 Digital Defense Report article showing a glowing digital padlock and bold headline, “Over Half of Cyberattacks Are Driven by Extortion and Ransomware,” symbolizing cyber insurance, ransomware defense, and data protection.

A New Era of Cyber Threats An increasingly evident arms race is unfolding in cyberspace. Algorithms duel, AI fights AI, and every click could spark a crisis. Microsoft’s new Digital Defense Report 2025 warns that the digital battlefield has gone fully commercial — and cash, not chaos, is the new currency of attack. In 2025, … Read more

Global Ransomware Attacks Surge 34%: KELA Warns of National Security Threat

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Ransomware Becomes a Weapon of National Disruption Ransomware has evolved from a corporate nuisance into a full-scale national security threat. According to KELA’s National Cybersecurity Report: Ransomware, attacks surged 34% year-over-year between January and September 2025. Nearly half of these attacks targeted critical infrastructure sectors, including manufacturing, healthcare, energy, transportation, and finance. Lin Levi, Threat … Read more

LevelBlue Acquires Cybereason, Expanding Global Cybersecurity Capabilities

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LevelBlue announced it will acquire Cybereason, strengthening its leadership in managed detection, response, and threat intelligence. The deal positions LevelBlue as the world’s largest pure-play managed security services provider (MSSP). Strategic Move to Unify Cyber Defense The acquisition integrates Cybereason’s advanced Extended Detection and Response (XDR) platform with LevelBlue’s AI-driven Managed Detection and Response (MDR) … Read more

CISO Mandate 2025: WEF’s Blueprint for Budgets, Boards, and Real Cyber Resilience

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The World Economic Forum has a message for every CISO: the job has outgrown its technical shell. Boards must empower security leaders, and CISOs must speak the language of business. The report calls cybersecurity a core business imperative, not a side function. It urges boards to treat the CISO as a strategic enabler of growth, … Read more

Executives Underestimate Cyberattack Costs, Willis Warns in 2025 Report

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Shocked executives reviewing cyberattack cost reports in a modern boardroom, holding long invoices as red dollar signs and financial graphs rise behind them, illustrating underestimated cybersecurity risks, ransomware losses, data breach costs, cyber insurance exposure, and corporate cyber resilience challenges in 2025.

Corporate leaders continue to underestimate the real cost of cyberattacks. The incident response data tells a painful and expensive story. In Willis’ new Cyber in Focus 2025 report, costs hit staggering heights, betraying a disconnect between perceived cyber readiness and actual cyber resilience: Despite these figures, many executives still express confidence in their cyber readiness. … Read more

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