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ENISA published its 2026 Threat Landscape on 22 September. The press release leads with ransomware, geopolitics, and hacktivist DDoS campaigns against essential entities. Page 13 of the report says something else. ENISA reports that operators in high-criticality NIS sectors describe DDoS as “noise.” Anyone underwriting European cyber risk should start there. What The ENISA Threat … Read more
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
Threat actors are using AI chatbots to negotiate ransoms. Travelers’ Director of Cyber Risk Services says they are not setting the price. They are removing the hours a victim needs to check backups and understand what happened. The pricing decision is still human. The clock is not. Matthew Butler, Director of Cyber Risk Services at … Read more
In late June, an energy utility in Australia lost its firewall. The attacker did not want that. Neither did his tool. A suspected ransomware operator had pointed Claude Code at the device. The model tried to rewrite the VPN configuration through the API. Those calls failed. So it downloaded the full device configuration, edited it … Read more
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