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#1 25 Years: The Journey of Cyber Insurance
Sep 5 2022 // This year marks the 25th anniversary of the cyber insurance market. While many industry observers view cyber coverage as a surging phenomenon in response to escalating incidence of random attacks, the first cyber policy...
#2 ‘Financial Hacking’ Plagues DeFi in Latest Setback for Crypto
Oct 20 2022 // Decentralized finance, the once red-hot slice of the crypto universe that was at the center of this year’s collapse of the digital-asset world, is facing a rapidly increasing new challenge: financial hacking. After...
#3 Russian Hackers Targeted U.S. Nuclear Scientists
Jan 6 2023 // A Russian hacking team known as Cold River targeted three nuclear research laboratories in the United States this past summer, according to internet records reviewed by Reuters and five cybersecurity experts. Between...
#4 Lloyd’s Cyber War Exclusions: Confusing, Disruptive, but Necessary?
May 22 2023 // The rollout of the Lloyd’s Market Association’s (LMA) cyber war exclusions received considerable criticism for the chaos and confusion they caused leading up to their effective date on March 31. But here are...
#5 Alleged Russian Hacker Charged in $200 Million Ransomware Spree
May 17 2023 // A Russian man was charged by US authorities in connection with his alleged role with multiple ransomware gangs that attacked hospitals, schools and police departments. Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, who was known online as...
#6 Asset Manager Lombard Odier Adds ESG Screens After ‘Shocking’ Cyber Report
Sep 6 2022 // Lombard Odier Investment Managers said the “shocking” results of an analysis into cybersecurity risks lurking in portfolio companies have led it to apply ESG processes far more broadly to protect its funds from...
#7 Cyber Watchdog Has ‘No Confidence’ in Emergency Cell Network Security
Apr 12 2023 // America’s cybersecurity watchdog has no confidence that the cellular network used by American first responders and the military is secure against digital intrusions, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden said in a letter released...
#8 Uber’s Former Security Chief Convicted of Data Hack Coverup
Oct 6 2022 // Uber Technologies Inc.’s former security chief was convicted of concealing a massive data breach in a case that prosecutors tied to the company’s troubled past under its original leadership. Joe Sullivan was...
#9 Significant Hack Potentially Exposes US Lawmakers’ Personal Data
Mar 9 2023 // A serious breach at a healthcare administrator serving the U.S. House of Representatives has potentially exposed the personal data of hundreds of lawmakers and their staff, top representatives and a senior Congressional...
#10 Banks, Financial Industry Hit by Rising Ransomware Attacks
Mar 24 2023 // Ransomware gangs didn’t come out with any big new innovations last year, but “what 2022 lacked in innovation it made up for in volume,” according to a report by a financial services group. In its annual...
#11 Australia Plans to Toughen Privacy Rules After Massive Cyber Attack on Optus
Sep 26 2022 // Australia plans to toughen privacy rules to force companies to notify banks faster when they experience cyber attacks, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday, after hackers targeted the country’s...
#12 Fewer Companies Are Paying Ransoms to Hackers, Researchers Say
Jan 19 2023 // Fewer companies that are infected with ransomware are coughing up extortion payments demanded by hackers, according to new research from Chainalysis Inc. In findings published on Thursday, the blockchain forensics firm...
#13 North Korean Hackers Posed as NY Times, Voice of America Staff
Mar 29 2023 // Suspected North Korean hackers are posing as journalists and trying to gather intelligence about international officials’ approach to nuclear security policy and Kim Jong Un’s government, according to new...
#14 T-Mobile Investigating Data Breach Involving 37 Million Accounts
Jan 20 2023 // U.S. wireless carrier T-Mobile said on Thursday it was investigating a data breach involving 37 million postpaid and prepaid accounts and that it expected to incur significant costs related to the incident. The company...
#15 US Agencies Hit in MOVEit Hacking Campaign as Victim List Grows
Jun 16 2023 // Multiple US agencies were compromised by a hacking campaign in which attackers have exploited flaws in a popular software tool to gather information from a range of victims. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...
#16 Phishing Triggers Majority of Cyber Claims in 2022 First Half: Coalition
Sep 14 2022 // Claims are down among Coalition policyholders in the first half of 2022, but small businesses became bigger targets and an organization’s employees remain the easiest was for cyber criminals to infiltrate and pull...
#17 North Korean Cyber Spies’ New Tactic: Tricking Experts Into Writing Research for Them
Dec 12 2022 // When Daniel DePetris, a U.S.-based foreign affairs analyst, received an email in October from the director of the 38 North think-tank commissioning an article, it seemed to be business as usual. It wasn’t. The sender...
#18 Lapsus$ Hacking Group Will Be Focus of DHS Cyber Review Board
Dec 5 2022 // The Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Safety Review Board said it will study the Lapsus$ hacking group, which has been accused of carrying out breaches at major US companies this year. The board, comprised of...
#19 FTX Reports $415M in Hacked Crypto, Bankman-Fried Says FTX U.S. Is Solvent
Jan 18 2023 // Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX said in a report to creditors on Tuesday that about $415 million in cryptocurrency had been stolen in hacks. FTX has said it had recovered over $5 billion in crypto, cash and liquid securities,...
#20 Twitter Misled Regulators on Hackers and Spam, Whistleblower Claims
Aug 24 2022 // Twitter Inc. misled federal regulators about its defenses against hackers and spam accounts, the social media company’s former security chief Peiter Zatko said in a whistleblower complaint. In an 84-page complaint,...
