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Bitdefender’s Antispam Lab has flagged a ransomware campaign aimed squarely at small businesses. The emails impersonate Interpol. They claim investigators hold evidence of company wrongdoing. The attached “evidence” is malware. The campaign is worth an underwriter’s attention for one reason. The ransomware is basic. The social engineering carrying it is not. How the Scam Works … Read more
On Friday, 19 September 2025, ransomware hit a piece of software most travelers never notice. Collins Aerospace runs MUSE. It is the shared check-in system used across many European airports. Heathrow, Brussels, Berlin, and Dublin lost their automated systems. Staff checked passengers in by hand. At least 217 flights were canceled. None of those airports … Read more
Financial institutions now face danger from two directions at once. Attackers are striking them directly again. Their vendors are springing new leaks at the same time. Black Kite calls it a two-front crisis. Direct ransomware attacks jumped 76% in the first quarter of 2026, year over year. Half of the sector’s vendors now carry critical … Read more
Verizon’s 2026 DBIR Covers 22,000 Confirmed Breaches Across 145 Countries For years, the answer to “how did they get in?” was the same: a stolen password. That answer changed in 2025. Verizon’s 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report, the 19th annual edition and the largest dataset the report has ever produced, finds vulnerability exploitation has overtaken … Read more
Only one in nine ransomware attacks becomes publicly disclosed. The rest happen in silence. That gap between what is reported and what is real has direct consequences for every organization that buys, sells, or underwrites cyber insurance. This ransomware trend is just part of the BlackFog Q1 2026 State of Ransomware report, released on May … Read more