Cyber-crime Allianz UK joins growing list of Clop’s Oracle E-Business Suite victims Insurance giant’s UK arm says cybercriminals misattributed the real victim
Cybersecurity Month 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
Cyber-crime 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-crime 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-crime 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-crime Experts count staggering costs incurred by UK retail amid cyberattack hell Cyber Monitoring Centre issues first severity assessment since February launch
Cyber-crime Scattered Spider has moved from retail to insurance Google threat analysts warn the team behind the Marks & Spencer break-in has moved on
Cyber-crime 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
Offbeat Insurance giant finds claims rep that gives a damn (it's AI) Tech shows customers more humanity than its human staff
CSO 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
Security Troubled US insurance giant hit by extortion after data leak Globe Life claims blackmailers shared stolen into with short sellers
AI + ML IBM: Insurance industry bosses keen on AI. Customers, not so much Fewer than 30% of clients happy dealing with a generative AI virtual agent
Offbeat Geico tells El Reg, no, it's not canceling all Cybertruck insurance This comes after Tesla owner griped of dropped policies on X
CSO 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
CSO CrowdStrike update blunder may cost world billions – and insurance ain't covering it all We offer this formula instead: RND(100.0)*(10^9)
Security US insurers use drone photos to deny home insurance policies Of course, it helps if you don't live in a potential disaster zone
Cyber-crime 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
CSO 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
Cyber-crime Finally, ransomware victims are refusing to pay up Near 50% drop in extorted dosh ... or so it says here
Cyber-crime Health insurer Aflac blames US partner for leak of Japanese cancer policy info Zurich’s Japanese outpost also leaks a couple of million records
Security Swiss Re wants government bail out as cybercrime insurance costs spike Giant forecasts premiums rising to $23b by 2025
CSO 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'
Cyber-crime Health insurer's infosec incident diagnosis goes from 'take a chill pill' to emergency ward Australia's Medibank says it's been shown stolen data that includes details of treatments administered to customers
Security 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
CSO Lloyd's to exclude certain nation-state attacks from cyber insurance policies Kim Jong-un has entered the chat
CSO 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
Security Higher risks and premiums are creating critical gap in cyber insurance Most organizations don’t have the financial resources necessary to address ransomware and other cyberattacks, BlackBerry says
Research Healthcare organizations face rising ransomware attacks – and are paying up Via their insurance companies, natch
Security Insurance giant Aon confirms it has suffered 'cyber incident' Oh the irony! Insurance companies, even those selling cyber insurance, are attack targets
Legal Insurance firm Admiral fails to grab phone location data of 'fraud' claimant's mother Plus: Quad9 loses German DNS-blocking injunction pause attempt
Security Resistance is ... cheap? Cloudflare, Mandiant, and pals form incident response 'n' cyber insurance borg Trust us with everything, croons septuple-strong partnership
Legal Don't panic about cyber insurers pulling up the drawbridge, says Lloyd's New clauses are menu to pick from, not commandments of stone
