Half Of This Year’s Manufacturing Ransomware Came From Groups That Did Not Exist Two Years Ago

Darkened industrial assembly line with motionless robotic arms and a single red warning light, illustrating manufacturing ransomware victims rising to 1,183 in 2026 with cyber insurance news branding

Jaguar Land Rover shut down its own global IT systems on 2 September 2025. Production stopped at three UK plants building roughly 1,000 vehicles a day, and stayed stopped for more than five weeks. The UK’s Cyber Monitoring Centre rated it a Category 3 systemic event, put the financial impact at £1.9bn ($2.5bn), and counted … Read more

Cyber Risk Quantification For Cyber Insurance: Black Kite Adds Open FAIR Assessments

What will it cost? An age-old question. In cyber risk, that question is moving beyond simple cost and into the language of probable financial impact. Black Kite is addressing that shift with a new product capability designed to bring automated financial risk analysis into third-party cyber risk assessments. Black Kite has expanded its cyber risk … Read more

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