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Underwriting of cyber risk, including insurers that combine coverage with vulnerability scanning and security services.
Only 153 of the 2,486 new cyber policies Samsung, DB, Hyundai, KB and Meritz wrote in the first half, or 6.2%, covered breach response and recovery. More than nine in ten were the liability cover Korea's privacy law requires, so companies pay for breach investigation and data recovery themselves.
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Andover officials confirmed an attacker reached some town systems in the Aug. 13 cyberattack but still cannot say whether any data was taken. The town has set no date for finishing the review that decides who gets notified.
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French notaries lost the money to intruders who lived on their networks and edited payment details before the instructions went out, which is why bank-side verification kept waving the transfers through.
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Insurers won regulatory approval for more than 80% of their requests to exclude AI-related damages from corporate policies, according to a CSIS analysis. Companies deploying AI agents now hold losses their insurers have decided not to price.
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Spain's AEPD disclosed its first breach notice naming an AI agent as the reported attacker, based on an account the regulator has not verified. Read with cases in Australia and a coding-agent test, it puts the cost for insurers and security teams in the permissions each agent holds.
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The tenth annual Cyber Readiness Report surveyed nearly 7,000 smaller businesses, 1,000 of them in the UK, and Britain came out with the highest successful-attack rate of any market in the study, at an average $35,908 per incident.
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The bureau's 2025 total of roughly $893 million comes only from victims who filed and from cases where investigators could identify the AI, and two of its subtotals overlap enough to exceed it. It is a floor.
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Kerri Shafer-Page of Arctic Wolf sets out four ransomware decisions in a Help Net Security video, each needing a named owner and, in the case of the payment ceiling, a number approved in advance.
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SecurityWeek logged 33 cybersecurity acquisitions in August 2026. Two of them took technology assets out of small vendors instead of buying the vendors, and only Kiteworks' move into Japan promised customers unchanged contracts and pricing.
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France's ANSSI spent two years quietly evicting a crew that had been altering payment instructions inside notary networks. The procedural fix that landed takes bank details off email rather than checking whether they changed.
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The cyber insurtech sold for about 43% of its 2021 valuation, roughly two times gross written premiums. SMB policyholders now wait until 2027 to land inside a reinsurer's specialty unit.
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Reuters puts the enterprise value about 57% below At-Bay's 2021 financing mark. Munich Re's own annual report still calls the relationship an investment.
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