Hacks of Microsoft Outlook Email Program Continue Despite Patch March 7, 2021 By Trevor Hunnicutt, Raphael Satter and Joseph Menn More than 20,000 U.S. organizations have been compromised through a back door installed via recently patched flaws in Microsoft Corp.’s...
U.S. Charges 3 North Koreans in $1.3B Hacking of Banks, Sony, Others February 18, 2021 By Mark Hosenball, Raphael Satter and Sarah N. Lynch The United States has charged three North Korean computer programmers with a massive hacking spree aimed at stealing more than...
What Your Clients Need to Know About Cyber Risks February 1, 2021 By Eric Cernak, President, Cyber at The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. This post is part of a series sponsored by Hanover Insurance Group Inc. Most businesses recognize a cyberattack can have...
SolarWinds Attackers Focused on Cyber and Tech Firms January 29, 2021 By Kartikay Mehrotra and Alyza Sebenius Whether it was opportunity, strategy or sheer chutzpah, the suspected Russian hackers behind a massive cyber-attack revealed last month focused...
Pandemic-Related Business Interruption, Cyber Top Business Risks for 2021: Allianz January 27, 2021 There was no escaping the coronavirus in 2020 and the pandemic will dominate the risk landscape again in 2021, according...
Russian Spy Tools Linked to SolarWinds Hack, Says Cyber Security Firm Kaspersky January 11, 2021 By Jack Stubbs The group behind a global cyber-espionage campaign discovered last month deployed malicious computer code with links to spying tools previously...
Deep Fake Losses to Challenge Cyber Insurers, CyberCube Warns January 7, 2021 What do Ulysses and his Trojan Horse, the pickpocket Fagan in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist and a video of Facebook’s...
Cyber Experts Race to Secure Networks Following Broad Cyber Attack on U.S. December 21, 2020 By Jack Stubbs Russian hackers who broke into U.S. government agencies also spied on less high-profile organizations, including groups in Britain, a U.S....
Suspected Russian Hack of U.S. Government: Espionage or Act of War? December 21, 2020 By Jan Wolfe and Brendan Pierson The suspected Russian hack of U.S. government agencies has led to heated rhetoric from lawmakers, with U.S. Senator Dick Durbin...
Cyber Insurers Scale Back as Ransomware Attacks Rise December 17, 2020 By Noor Zainab Hussain and Carolyn Cohn Ransomware attacks increased in terms of both severity and costs this year, forcing insurers to become more selective and even...