Data breach stories
Businesses using AI agents can now insure against payments gone wrong, data leaks and customer claims under a new Cowbell policy.
The public record shows disclosure lags of weeks or months, with 59 cases logged since July and most involving unauthorised access or sandbox escapes.
Businesses hit by breaches may get 60 days of free protection as Huntress tries to close the gap between incident response and recovery.
The report says cloud teams are exposing more systems to attack, with high or critical vulnerabilities rising from four to about 16 in nine months.
The move gives organisations a separate recovery path for analytics and AI data, after attacks on cloud backups and identity systems have risen.
Rising security spend has failed to curb cyber incidents, prompting Michael Collins to argue that organisations need better decision-making, not more tools.
The findings show stolen files can reach far beyond the named victim, with the median breach now exposing data linked to 542 other organisations.
Roughly one in five organisations have already suffered a breach tied to unapproved AI connections, as visibility lags behind spending plans.
Businesses risk costly GDPR breaches because paper files can escape digital controls, go missing for months and be harder to trace.
Businesses should rethink laptop security after Binance said a work device may have opened the door to a USD $6.3 billion theft.
The browser extension now flags look-alike login pages locally, helping users block credential theft before passwords are submitted.
With cyber incidents rising, the service aims to help stretched security teams identify exposed systems and decide what to fix first.
Mid-sized businesses are facing the sharpest exposure, with four in 10 reporting sensitive data access by unauthorised identities in the past year.
CrowdStrike found four threat actors using AI agents to automate cyberattacks, compromising healthcare, government and private-sector organisations.
Nearly all UK financial services firms hit by cyberattacks are still losing business time and money, despite widespread insurance cover.
The incident has exposed a gap in cyber risk planning, with unauthorised app messages at ASOS showing how trust and fraud fears can linger after attacks.
Nearly two-thirds of UK project-based firms are worried about cyber risk, after 70% were targeted in the past three years and half lost money.
Millions of customer records were exposed after attackers used keys pulled from public apps to breach backend systems at Japanese firms.
Indian businesses face bigger breach bills and stricter rules as AAA Technologies expands into AI-led remediation and continuous monitoring.
The Mumbai-based group plans a tenfold workforce expansion as it adds AI services aimed at helping clients fix breaches and stay compliant.