The Perimeter Now Includes Home Routers, Comcast Says

Cyber Insurance News story on residential proxy networks showing a living room camera and router linked by glowing threads to an office tower

Comcast Business counted 79.3 billion cybersecurity events in its 2026 threat report. The more telling findings sit deeper in its research, in hijacked home devices and stolen logins. Seventy-nine billion is a number built for a headline. Comcast Business counted 79.3 billion cybersecurity events across its security customers between March 2025 and February 2026. That … Read more

Headquarters Pays The Ransom. Franchisees Set The Rules.

Cyber Insurance News story on franchise cyber risk showing a row of shopfronts with one store's red glow spreading to its neighbors

VikingCloud surveyed large multi-location brands, which the report calls “distributed enterprises,” on how attacks spread and who pays. Headquarters makes the ransom call far more often than it mandates security. The survey did not ask whose cyber policy responds. When ransomware hits one location of a large brand, headquarters usually makes the ransom call. That … Read more

No Insurer Has Asked Which SaaS Apps You Use

Cyber Insurance News story on SaaS supply chain risk showing two app tiles joined by a cracked connector leaking red light

Nudge Security CEO Russell Spitler says cyber insurance applications miss the question that decides SaaS supply chain risk. He has yet to see an insurer ask for a company’s list of applications. In August 2025, attackers stole OAuth tokens from Salesloft’s Drift integration. They used them to pull data out of Salesforce instances across many … Read more

Recovery Took Twice As Long As Planned. Nobody Priced For That.

Three-quarters of organizations that suffered a material cyberattack and business interruption in the past year blew through their recovery time objective. On average, recovery took nearly twice as long as the objective they had set. That figure does not appear in Cohesity’s press release. It sits on page six of the full report, and it … 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

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