Crime Is Crime. The Invoice Is Not. New UK Research Puts Cyber Incidents At 28% Of Businesses

UK business crime and cyber insurance graphic showing a British high street shopfront split between a broken shop window with police tape and a ransomware lock screen, illustrating that only one in ten UK businesses hold a specific cyber insurance policy.

A burglar takes your stock. A hacker takes your Tuesday, your payroll run and your customer list. Both are crime. Both cost money. Only one of them gets insured properly. New research from business lender Capital on Tap surveyed 500 United Kingdom business owners in June 2026. More than one in four, 28%, reported a … Read more

Hackers Silenced The Water Alarms. Insurers Are Being Asked To Fix It.

Attackers did not just lock operators out. Federal guidance says they learned to disable the alarms that warn something is wrong. A proposal wants underwriters to enforce a standard of care that courts already struck down once. Attackers spent late July inside the control systems of American water utilities. They changed IP addresses. They set … Read more

UK Cloud Outage Risk: Three Data Regions Carry 40% Of The Economy’s Revenue Exposure

The UK economy has a concentration problem, and it hums away in server halls in Dublin, Amsterdam, and Northern Virginia. New analysis from the Cyber Monitoring Centre and Parametrix maps where UK cloud dependency actually pools. Three aggregation points support 40% of the UK’s revenue exposure while serving just 3.5% of its companies. The headline … Read more

Marsh’s New Endorsement Targets Cyber Insurance’s Slowest Payout

A breach can shut a business down for months. Marsh wants insurers paying for that downtime in days, not after the recovery is over. Ransomware does not just lock files. It stops the business. AXA XL’s own claims data found 92% of ransomware incidents caused a business interruption, and the average company needed about two … Read more

Nearly 3 In 10 US Businesses Hit By Cyber Incidents Involving Suspected AI Use

QBE Survey Of 6,000 Businesses Across 15 Countries Finds The Threat Going Global The email looked genuine. The language was polished. The urgency was calibrated just so. Behind it was an AI model, crafting the attack with a precision no human phishing crew could match at scale. QBE’s new cyber survey puts a hard number … Read more

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