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Blogs & Opinions 30.07.2024

Cyber Resilience in Healthcare: Tackling Ransomware with Advanced Cyber Defences

When it comes to protecting healthcare data and systems, the threat is high, and the stakes are even higher, warns Dr. Darren Williams In early June 2024, major London hospitals, including Kings College Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’s, declared a critical incident following a ransomware attack on Synnovis, a pathology services provider. This cyber […]

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Features 23.07.2024

Ransomware Glow Ups: The Ransomware Groups That Have Reinvented Themselves

Ransomware groups often rebrand, resurfacing with a new identity. Kate O’Flaherty explores what this means for law enforcement and lists the most significant ransom group rebrands Ransomware never goes away, nor do the groups that use the data-locking malware in attacks. Despite multiple initiatives, sanctions, and attempts by law enforcement to make arrests, ransomware groups […]

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Assured Reacts 09.07.2024

Assured Reacts: Howden Insurance Report Shows Double-Digit Decline in Cyber Premiums

What happened? Generalist insurance brokerage Howden released its 2024 cyber insurance report late in June. Highlights from the report include: Cyber insurance premiums are falling globally, with the cyber insurance market witnessing double-digit price reductions Greater appetite from insurers has led to double-digit price decreases despite cyber attacks and ransomware rising Standalone cyber insurance policies […]

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Blogs & Opinions 19.03.2024

Getting Into the Psyche of a Ransomware Hacker in 2024

What’s changed in the ransomware landscape in 2024? Chris Rogers considers the psyche of those writing the code and looks at new tactics, tools and the prevalence of double-extortion ransomware The cybersecurity ecosystem moves at an extremely rapid pace. However, in the months ahead, it seems inevitable that organisations will be faced with even more […]

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Features 13.02.2024

Unpatched Patches: Three Critical Patches that Just Keep Bleeding

Unpatched issues can result in dire consequences, as the worst flaws of recent times show. Kate O’Flaherty considers the podium of recent unpatched flaws and questions why firms are so slow to patch Patching: You can’t live with it, but you definitely can’t live without it. And as many firms have discovered, failing to patch […]

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Features 25.01.2024

Ransomware in the UK: A Catastrophic Risk?

The House of Commons and House of Lords released a report on UK national security, warning that the UK is at risk of a catastrophic ransomware attack. Assured Intelligence breaks that down.

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Interviews 04.04.2023

A Cyber Insurance Broker Grilling

Insurance exasperating ransomware? An immature sector? Savings instead of insurance? Dan Raywood grills Assured’s head cyber broker, Ed Ventham, about the state of cyber insurance

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