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Financial institutions now face danger from two directions at once. Attackers are striking them directly again. Their vendors are springing new leaks at the same time. Black Kite calls it a two-front crisis. Direct ransomware attacks jumped 76% in the first quarter of 2026, year over year. Half of the sector’s vendors now carry critical … Read more
Asia is the next big opportunity in cyber insurance. That is the central finding of new joint research from United Insurance Brokers (UIB) and CyberCube, published this week. The report, “Unlocking Asia’s Cyber Insurance Opportunity: The Broker’s Role in Growth,” identifies the region as one of the most compelling growth frontiers in the global market. … Read more
Verizon’s 2026 DBIR Covers 22,000 Confirmed Breaches Across 145 Countries For years, the answer to “how did they get in?” was the same: a stolen password. That answer changed in 2025. Verizon’s 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report, the 19th annual edition and the largest dataset the report has ever produced, finds vulnerability exploitation has overtaken … Read more
Lee Nolan, General Manager UK and Ireland for Hitachi Vantara, explains why recovery speed, not breach prevention, defines a company’s true cyber risk. Most business leaders accept that a breach will happen at some point. Well, they should. The real issue is whether their company can survive it. Lee Nolan has over 20 years of … Read more
The Breach Nobody Saw Coming Imagine it’s Tuesday morning. The CFO gets a call: systems are locked, and a ransom note appears on the screen. The attacker didn’t break in physically; they used a stolen password. This happened to seven out of ten organizations Sophos surveyed last year. The State of Identity Security 2026 report, … Read more