Swiss Re: Extreme Cyber Accumulation Is Too Big For Private Capital

Cyber Insurance News story on cyber accumulation risk showing a glowing network with one red node spreading through its links

Swiss Re Institute read the risk disclosures of 91 Fortune-100 companies. Ninety-eight percent of them name cyber attacks as a risk to their business. No risk in the study appeared more often. With the London School of Economics, it compared filings from 2019 and 2026. Cyber attacks topped the list in 2026, up from 91% … 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

Dangling DNS Takeover Risk: Inside Silent Push’s “Danglegeddon” Study

There are billions of subdomains on the internet pointing to nothing. Silent Push calls them “billions of forgotten, abandoned, and misconfigured subdomains.” Most sit quietly. None of them look dangerous. Silent Push just proved how wrong that assumption is. The threat intelligence firm ran a simulation across four sectors: government, banking, automotive manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals. … 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

Cyber Insurance Market Forecast: Powerful 2026 Trends In Ransomware, Vendors, Privacy, And AI

Willis reports that the cyber insurance market remained favorable for buyers in 2025. Both the number and severity of losses increased, but prices continued to fall. Competition since 2022 led to yearly premium reductions, and this trend continued through 2025, even as risks grew. But Willis notes a possible change ahead, with early 2026 showing … Read more

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