Allianz UK joins growing list of Clop’s Oracle E-Business Suite victims Insurance giant’s UK arm says cybercriminals misattributed the real victim Cyber-crime10 Nov 2025 | 9
Firewalls and VPNs are so complex now, they can actually make you less secure A report from cyber-insurer At-Bay fingers Cisco and Citrix VPNs as most likely to lead to ransomware trouble Cybersecurity Month28 Oct 2025 | 21
Farmers Insurance harvests bad news: 1.1M customers snared in data breach Crims raided third-party systems and lifted personal data, including license numbers and partial SSNs Cyber-crime26 Aug 2025 | 4
Majority of 1.4M customers caught in Allianz Life data heist No word on who's behind it, but attack has hallmarks of the usual suspects Cyber-crime28 Jul 2025 | 2
Young Consulting finds even more folks affected in breach mess – now over 1 million The insurance SaaS slinger may trade under a different name, but past continues to haunt it Cyber-crime03 Jul 2025 | 1
Experts count staggering costs incurred by UK retail amid cyberattack hell Cyber Monitoring Centre issues first severity assessment since February launch Cyber-crime23 Jun 2025 | 27
Scattered Spider has moved from retail to insurance Google threat analysts warn the team behind the Marks & Spencer break-in has moved on Cyber-crime16 Jun 2025 | 1
Now 1.6M people had SSNs, life chapter and verse stolen from insurance IT biz 800K? Make that double, and we'll need a double, too, for the pain Cyber-crime15 Apr 2025 | 15
Insurance giant finds claims rep that gives a damn (it's AI) Tech shows customers more humanity than its human staff Offbeat13 Feb 2025 | 24
If Ransomware Inc was a company, its 2024 results would be a horror show 35% drop in payments across the year as your backups got better and law enforcement made a difference CSO07 Feb 2025 | 2
Troubled US insurance giant hit by extortion after data leak Globe Life claims blackmailers shared stolen into with short sellers Security17 Oct 2024 |
IBM: Insurance industry bosses keen on AI. Customers, not so much Fewer than 30% of clients happy dealing with a generative AI virtual agent AI + ML16 Oct 2024 | 17
Geico tells El Reg, no, it's not canceling all Cybertruck insurance This comes after Tesla owner griped of dropped policies on X Offbeat07 Oct 2024 | 44
Security boom is over, with over a third of CISOs reporting flat or falling budgets Good news? Security is still getting a growing part of IT budget CSO05 Sep 2024 | 1
CrowdStrike update blunder may cost world billions – and insurance ain't covering it all We offer this formula instead: RND(100.0)*(10^9) CSO26 Jul 2024 | 56
US insurers use drone photos to deny home insurance policies Of course, it helps if you don't live in a potential disaster zone Security08 Apr 2024 | 136
BlackCat claims it is behind Fidelity National Financial ransomware shakedown One of US's largest underwriters forced to shut down a number of key systems Cyber-crime23 Nov 2023 | 1
Insurers can't use 'act of war' excuse to avoid Merck's $1.4B NotPetya payout 'The get-out-of-jail-free card option has been removed' as one expert put it CSO03 May 2023 | 36
Finally, ransomware victims are refusing to pay up Near 50% drop in extorted dosh ... or so it says here Cyber-crime19 Jan 2023 | 18
Health insurer Aflac blames US partner for leak of Japanese cancer policy info Zurich’s Japanese outpost also leaks a couple of million records Cyber-crime11 Jan 2023 | 2
Swiss Re wants government bail out as cybercrime insurance costs spike Giant forecasts premiums rising to $23b by 2025 Security08 Nov 2022 | 33
Ritz cracker giant settles bust-up with insurer over $100m+ NotPetya cleanup Deal could 'upend the entire cyber-insurance ecosystem and make it almost impossible to get meaningful cyber coverage' CSO02 Nov 2022 | 55
Health insurer's infosec incident diagnosis goes from 'take a chill pill' to emergency ward Updated Australia's Medibank says it's been shown stolen data that includes details of treatments administered to customers Cyber-crime20 Oct 2022 | 12
Unhappy about excluding nation-state attacks from cyberinsurance? Get ready to pay Lloyd's defends stance as critics say policy tweaks make it less worthwhile to spend on premiums Security06 Sep 2022 | 23
Lloyd's to exclude certain nation-state attacks from cyber insurance policies Updated Kim Jong-un has entered the chat CSO24 Aug 2022 | 55
PC store told it can't claim full cyber-crime insurance after social-engineering attack Two different kinds of fraud, says judge while throwing out lawsuit against insurer CSO16 Aug 2022 | 4
Higher risks and premiums are creating critical gap in cyber insurance Black Hat Most organizations don’t have the financial resources necessary to address ransomware and other cyberattacks, BlackBerry says Security11 Aug 2022 | 4
Healthcare organizations face rising ransomware attacks – and are paying up Via their insurance companies, natch Research03 Jun 2022 | 10
Insurance giant Aon confirms it has suffered 'cyber incident' Oh the irony! Insurance companies, even those selling cyber insurance, are attack targets Security01 Mar 2022 | 6
Insurance claims up 31% thanks to the metaverse I'm gaming like a wrecking ball Bootnotes14 Feb 2022 | 20
Insurance firm Admiral fails to grab phone location data of 'fraud' claimant's mother Plus: Quad9 loses German DNS-blocking injunction pause attempt Legal17 Dec 2021 | 49
Resistance is ... cheap? Cloudflare, Mandiant, and pals form incident response 'n' cyber insurance borg Trust us with everything, croons septuple-strong partnership Security09 Dec 2021 | 4
Don't panic about cyber insurers pulling up the drawbridge, says Lloyd's New clauses are menu to pick from, not commandments of stone Legal09 Dec 2021 | 10