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Buying a cyber insurance policy still begins with a questionnaire. That process is no longer enough. In a recent Cyber Insurance News podcast, I spoke with Tristan Morris, co-founder and CEO of SplitSecure, and Dylan Hamilton, business development lead at SplitSecure. SplitSecure builds credential and privileged access management tools to provide insurers with verifiable proof … Read more
The Numbers Changed. The Rules Changed With Them The FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Report delivers one number that sets the stage: losses reported to the Internet Crime Complaint Center reached $20.877 billion last year, a 26% jump from 2024. For insurers, brokers, and corporate risk managers, this confirms the trend. The response to this threat … Read more
AI risk is giving old cyber threats a dangerous new advantage: speed. BakerHostetler, a U.S. law firm with a large cybersecurity, privacy, and incident response practice, puts AI risk at the center of its 2026 Data Security Incident Response Report. The report, based on over 1,250 incidents handled by the firm’s Digital Assets and Data … Read more
A researcher typed a simple request into a chat window. The agent answered like a diligent assistant. Then it did something else. It complied with a stranger’s framing. It returned private emails. In one scenario, it refused to reveal a Social Security number. Then it “forwarded the full email,” exposing the same data anyway. The … Read more
Resilience’s 2025 cyber insurance claims data shows that ransomware groups are now focusing on stealing data to gain leverage. Data-suppression extortion rose from 49% in the first half of the year to 65% in the second half. In 57% of attacks, criminals used data theft to get around stronger backups. Infostealers collected over two billion … Read more