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Two years ago, NetDiligence counted 15 ransom payments of $10m or more across its entire claims dataset. This year it counted 59. The sixteenth annual Cyber Claims Study, published on 15 September, analyses 10,309 real cyber insurance claims from incidents between 2021 and 2025, contributed directly by cyber insurers. Against the 2024 edition, which covered … Read more
A Token For The Pause Button: Social Engineering Losses And The Click Habit It’s 2003. Stage. Steve Jobs. Black turtleneck. Mock turtleneck? And words of digital gospel: buying should be easy. No pause. No friction. Steve didn’t invent impulse. He just helped us lean further into it. Maybe it was even a leap. In 2003, … Read more
Agentic AI is reshaping how underwriters and claims teams think about cyber risk. The disruption arrives at machine speed. AI keeps inventing and changing at a pace the market rarely sees. Insurance touches every industry. Every industry is now embracing AI. That pushes risk and liability to the forefront. The latest Cyber Insurance News podcast … Read more
The U.S. cyber insurance market faces a stark new reality. Premiums fell for the first time to $9.14 billion, according to AM Best, just as cyber insurance claims jumped 40%. Cowbell’s 2026 Claims Report, built on 18 months of incident data, maps the forces driving this divergence. This market shift is critical for every CFO … Read more
A new global survey of 600 senior cybersecurity leaders reveals a troubling gap. Nearly every organization has a formal incident response plan. But almost three-quarters of the people responsible for those plans say they would not work under real pressure. That disconnect sits at the heart of the 2026 CISO Survey: The State of Incident … Read more