Latest Cyber Headlines

All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.

UK Cyber Spies Plan AI ‘Lab’ to Counter Hostile State Threats

Aug 13 2024 // UK spies are stepping up efforts to tackle cyber and artificial intelligence threats from hostile foreign states, including the sort of online manipulation that helped foment rioting across the country in the past 10...

Swiss-Based Engineering Firm Schlatter Says IT Network Affected by Cyberattack

Aug 13 2024 // Schlatter Industries’ network was attacked with malware on Friday and it can be assumed this was a professional attack, the Switzerland-based company said on Monday. The group was hit on Friday by a cyberattack using...

Delta Rejects CrowdStrike Criticism, Sees $500 Million Hit From Cyber Outage

Aug 9 2024 // Delta Air Lines said on Thursday it is pursuing legal claims against CrowdStrike and Microsoft after a global outage last month caused mass flight cancellations, disrupting travel plans of 1.3 million customers and costing...

Survey: 78% of Ransomware Victims Paid and 74% Suffered Multiple Strikes

Aug 8 2024 // A survey of nearly 1,000 IT and security professionals shows numerous organizations were targeted by ransomware attacks in the past year with a high degree of success, with most paying a ransom—many of which paid...

People Moves: Markel Announces 2 Key Hires for International Casualty Team; Howden Re Taps Gruen From AXIS as Head of Cyber Threat Intelligence

Aug 7 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Markel and Howden Re. A summary of these new hires follows here. Markel Appoints 2 Key Hires for International Casualty Team Markel, the insurance...

City of Columbus, Ohio Says Foreign Cyber Threat Attempted to Disrupt IT System

Aug 6 2024 // The City of Columbus said an investigation into a July 18 cybersecurity incident has found that a foreign cyber threat actor attempted to disrupt the city’s IT infrastructure, in a possible effort to deploy...

Experts Say More Collaboration Needed for Critical Infrastructure Cyber Risk

Aug 5 2024 // Insurers continue to grapple with elusive and ever changing cyber risks in the critical infrastructure sector, and Matthew McCabe, managing director for Guy Carpenter’s Cyber Center of Excellence, said he sees a...

Suspected Chinese Hackers Hit Taiwanese Research Center

Aug 2 2024 // A hacking group believed to be linked to the Chinese government stole passwords and documentsfrom a Taiwanese government-affiliated research center that specializes in computing, cybersecurity researchers at Cisco Systems...

Microsoft Azure Attack Shows Persistence of Blunt Hacking Tool

Aug 2 2024 // The recent outage on Microsoft Corp.’s cloud-computer platform demonstrated the persistence of an older, blunt-force style of cyberattack. It’s called a distributed denial-of-service attack, DDoS for short, and...

Markets/Coverages: Coalition Introduces Active Cyber Insurance in Germany

Aug 1 2024 // Coalition, the San Francisco-based cyber managing general agent and cyber-security firm, announced the launch of its Active Cyber Insurance in Germany through its subsidiary, Coalition Insurance Solutions GmbH....

Verisk’s PCS Classifies CrowdStrike Incident as a Cyber Catastrophe

Jul 31 2024 // Verisk’s Property Claim Services unit confirmed reports it has designated the recent global information technology outage as a cyber catastrophe event. With the designation, PCS Global Cyber believes what has come to...

How a Small South Dakota College Became a Hub for Cyber Job Creation

Jul 31 2024 // MADISON, S.D. (AP) — A seed planted by South Dakota legislative and higher education leaders four decades ago has blossomed into one of the nation’s top high-tech universities located in a small city in the rural...

Delta Air Lines to Seek Compensation Over Cyber Outage: Report

Jul 30 2024 // Delta Air Lines has hired a law firm and will seek compensation from Microsoft and CrowdStrike over a global cyber outage earlier this month that disrupted flights around the world, CNBC reported on Monday. The...

ECB’s Cyber Security Test Shows ‘Room for Improvement’ for Banks

Jul 29 2024 // Euro zone banks have “room for improvement” in their cyber security, starting with how they would keep their business running after a hack, the European Central Bank said on Friday. The ECB’s first ever...

Hackers Leak Documents From Pentagon IT Services Provider Leidos

Jul 24 2024 // Hackers have leaked internal documents stolen from Leidos Holdings Inc., one of the largest IT services providers to the US government, according to a person familiar with the matter. Leidos recently learned of the issue...

Trigger Warning: Cyber Policy Wordings to Impact Coverage for Tech Outage

Jul 22 2024 // Industry stakeholders continue to try to get a grasp of the implications from last week’s massive technology outage affecting motley industries around the world, but the theme of policy language is reoccurring for a...

Two Russian Men Plead Guilty in LockBit Ransomware Attacks

Jul 22 2024 // Two Russian nationals pleaded guilty to their roles in ransomware attacks in the US, Asia, Europe and Africa for a notorious hacking gang known as LockBit. Ruslan Astamirov and Mikhail Vasiliev admitted they helped to...

SolarWinds Beats Most of SEC Lawsuit Over Russia-Linked Cyberattack

Jul 19 2024 // A U.S. judge dismissed most of a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit accusing software company SolarWinds of defrauding investors by concealing its security weaknesses before and after a Russia-linked cyberattack...

UK Lays Out Stronger Cybersecurity Defenses After Attack Crippled NHS Hospitals

Jul 18 2024 // The new UK government plans to strengthen the nation’s defenses against cyberattacks, a month after a ransomware hack crippled London hospitals and health care providers. Labour introduced the Cyber Security and...

Russian Cybersecurity Firm Kaspersky Labs to Wind Down US Operations

Jul 18 2024 // Kaspersky Labs will gradually wind down its U.S. operations from July 20, the Russian anti-virus software maker said on Monday, nearly a month after the Biden administration announced plans to bar sales of the company in...