Arctic Wolf: A Third Party Made The Call In Half Of Ransom Payments

Security leaders trust AI with almost nothing. Their carriers approved ransom payments in half the cases where money moved. A third party made the payment decision in half of the ransomware cases where a ransom got paid. Arctic Wolf names the cyber insurer as the example. The finding sits on page 13 of the company’s … Read more

Hidden OAuth Grants Draw New AI Agents: Nudge Security Targets A Cyber Insurance Blind Spot

Two breaches rode trusted app connections into hundreds of Salesforce environments. Nudge Security says AI agents can police those connections. Its CEO says insurers should start asking about them. Nudge Security has announced two AI agents aimed at OAuth grants and browser extensions. The Austin-based vendor calls these two of the fastest-growing attack surfaces in … Read more

Agentic AI: 98% Have Already Had An Incident. Few Can Prove What Happened

A new report opens with a number built to alarm. Almost every large organization running AI agents has already had one cause disruption. The figure is 98%. The research comes from Economist Enterprise, supported by Rubrik. It surveyed 804 senior technical executives across nine countries. Every respondent runs AI agents in live systems. The headline … Read more

When an AI Agent Causes the Loss: Shadow AI and the Underwriting Questions It Raises

An AI agent can now write code, call tools, move files, and run commands. In most setups, it does all of that with the permissions of the person who launched it. So when an agent causes damage, the first underwriting question is deceptively hard. Who acted? Remy Guercio, Product Lead for Aperture at Tailscale, does … Read more

Agent Identity Becomes an Underwriting Question: Can You Account for Your AI Agents?

A new launch puts agent identity at the center of a simple underwriting premise. Carriers cannot insure what they cannot measure. Ceros launched today as what its maker calls the first trust layer purpose-built for autonomous AI agents. Beyond Identity, the company behind it, pitches Ceros as a single layer for agent identity, observability, and … Read more

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