The Ransom Bot Is Not Haggling – It Is Taking Away Your Thinking Time

Threat actors are using AI chatbots to negotiate ransoms. Travelers’ Director of Cyber Risk Services says they are not setting the price. They are removing the hours a victim needs to check backups and understand what happened. The pricing decision is still human. The clock is not. Matthew Butler, Director of Cyber Risk Services at … Read more

Defense Just Lost Its Head Start. Ask A Hospital What That Costs.

An AI agent ran a ransomware attack in July with nobody at the keyboard. When its first login failed, it read the error and corrected itself in seconds. Shelterzoom’s CEO says that becomes standard practice in months, not years. The AI did not need a human at the keyboard. Chao Cheng-Shorland, co-founder and CEO of … Read more

Nobody Owns The Password. Passpack CEO Chris Skipworth Explains The Credential Gap Sitting Inside Your Next Renewal – PODCAST

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Multi-factor authentication proves a real person logged in. It never proves whose credential they used. That gap runs through almost every small business on the market. Multi-factor authentication confirms that a real person logged in. It does not confirm who owns the credential they used. Chris Skipworth has built a company around that gap. He … Read more

They Said They Had MFA. They Were Telling the Truth. The Claim Still Failed – New Podcast

Two security leaders explain why binary questionnaire items produce honest answers and denied claims, and what insurers could ask instead. The latest CINI podcast opens with a question I thought had an obvious answer. It does not. Julien Richard, vice president of information security at Lastwall, spent part of the hour describing a company that … Read more

What’s Your Blast Radius Worth? – Podcast

Microsegmentation. Poland’s cyberwar. AI-powered attackers. The blast radius that decides your cyber insurance premium. New podcast episode. Poland absorbed 270,000 cyberattacks in the past year. That’s 2.5 times more than the year before, according to Deputy Digital Affairs Minister Paweł Olszewski. Russia tripled its military intelligence resources aimed at Polish targets in 2025, per Digital … Read more

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