Oil & Gas Industry Faces More Frequent & Sophisticated Cyber Attacks: Deloitte June 27, 2017 By Giacomo Tognini Three out of four oil and natural gas companies fell victim to at least one cyber attack last year as...
Hackers Target Canada Miners, Casinos, Demanding Bitcoin Ransoms: FireEye June 19, 2017 By Alastair Sharp The same hacker targeting Canadian casinos and mining companies for extortion since 2013 is planning more attacks, researchers at cyber...
Cyber Criminals or State-Backed Hackers? It’s Getting Harder to Tell… June 2, 2017 By Eric Auchard Veteran espionage researcher Jon DiMaggio was hot on the trail three months ago of what on the face of it...
Cyber Insurance Market Growing More Slowly Than Expected: Allianz May 26, 2017 The tiny market for cyber insurance has been slower to develop than generally anticipated, a member of Allianz’s board said...
TMK Launches Visual Effects, Post Production Media Cover May 25, 2017 Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK), the London-based specialist insurance business, announces the launch of visual effects (VFX) and post production media...
Cyber Security Expert Leonardo to Offer Anti-Ransomware Weapon May 24, 2017 By Chiara Albanese and Daniele Lepido When a wave of ransom-requesting cyber attacks hit computers across the globe earlier this month, Leonardo SpA cyber-security experts had...
Firms Turn to Kidnap Insurance Policies to Cover Ransomware Losses May 19, 2017 By Suzanne Barlyn and Carolyn Cohn Companies without cyber insurance are dusting off policies covering kidnap, ransom and extortion in the world’s political hotspots to recoup...
European Cyber Police Hunt for Culprits of Global Ransomware Attack May 18, 2017 By Kit Chellel Days after the global cyber attack, U.K. police are trying to figure out whether it was an established network of...
WannaCry Ransomware Hackers Threaten to Release More Malicious Code May 17, 2017 By Dustin Volz Governments turned their attention to a possible new wave of cyber threats on Tuesday after the group that leaked U.S....
Some Firms Opt to Pay Hackers’ Ransoms, but Fail to Recover Data: Opinion May 16, 2017 By Lionel Laurent Behind the rise of ransomware lies the rise of bitcoin, the virtual currency of choice for hacker blackmailers who steal...