Cyber Risk stories

EC-Council launches the Global CISO Council to unify AI governance, tech risk oversight and regulatory response for senior security leaders.

AI agents are fuelling a new wave of cyber risk, as criminals weaponise automation to speed up ransomware and sharpen extortion tactics.

Tenable appoints veteran cybersecurity sales leader Dino DiMarino as chief revenue officer to drive global growth in exposure and AI risk.

Big businesses can spot cyber intrusions but struggle to contain them fast, leaving cloud-era networks exposed to deeper, costlier breaches.

Iran-linked wiper cyber attack cripples Stryker plants, disrupting implant production and locking thousands of staff out of global networks.

Vicarius launches vIntelligence to continuously validate real-world exploitability and close the loop between detection, remediation and proof.

KnowBe4 unveils AI-powered Custom SAPA agent to tailor cyber awareness tests to each organisation's policies, tools and real-world risks.

Cynomi is urging MSPs to tap booming demand for third-party risk services as supply chain attacks surge and compliance rules tighten.

IBM warns shadow AI, deepfakes and quantum threats will reshape cyber risk by 2026, as autonomous agents speed breaches and ransomware.

Cohesity deepens its Cyera tie-up, embedding DSPM into its data cloud to sharpen discovery, classification and cyber recovery at scale.

Global cyber attacks hover near record highs as unchecked workplace GenAI use exposes sensitive data in one in 31 corporate prompts.

Tufin rolls out four AI assistants and a customisable executive hub to speed network security rule searches, access changes and risk insight.

Terra Security becomes first AWS partner validated for Autonomous Security Validation, as AI-driven continuous threat testing gains pace.

Rising UK cyber attacks show training alone is failing; firms must embed behavioural security cues into daily work to cut human risk.

Forcepoint adds ARIA AI assistant and a faster endpoint agent to Data Security Cloud to tighten policy control for generative AI workloads.

New research from Cobalt finds 98% of surveyed pentesters prefer PTaaS to bug bounties and show almost no faith in AI-only security scanning.

Fintech's risk frameworks are missing a vital safeguard: more women in decision rooms to challenge blind spots and prioritise resilience.

Global ransomware attacks jump 50% to 7,874 in 2025, with industrial firms bearing the brunt as criminal groups reshuffle their tactics.

LevelBlue and Tenable have teamed up to launch a tiered exposure management service giving MSPs continuous, risk-based visibility.

Acronis finds SMBs patch Microsoft flaws in about eight days, but the slowest endpoints stay exposed to known bugs for over five weeks.