“This security interval presents an opportunity and a responsibility for the brokers and (RE) insurers,” William Altmann, director of Cyber Thref Intelligence Services at Cybercube, said in a statement. “Brokers play an important role in adoption among small businesses, helping them to identify the value of cyber coverage. (Again) For insurers, the expansion of small enterprises not only widespread market access and enhances portfolio diversification, but also strengthens economic flexibility.”
Bipolar threat of cybercube briefing Shows that small businesses (defined as $ 10 million to $ 250 million in annual revenue worldwide) were specially attacked in 2025 through ransomware from February 2025. Data shared with a cyber extortion in -indicative response firm Coovware, showing companies with 11 to 1,000 employees to 75% of the Kovware response cases. Small businesses often lack cyber security to prevent and reduce attacks.
Adding to the current Grim Outlook is the fact that hackers are beginning to use artificial intelligence to automate parts of the cyber attack. Cybercube said that it does not expect AI “revolutionize cyber attacks against small businesses”, but San Francisco -based firm is monitoring how the use of AI can help the attackers.
Cybercube said, “AI can accelerate the development of danger actors targeting small business with a theoretically low and mid-value ransom.
Especially note that there is a high risk due to the education sector, which is low investment in cyber security and wearing these institutions due to low investment and valuable student and employee information. Cybercube said that one of the students’ information and learning systems used by the small education organization is exceptionally large data violations and outage risks. A student information system can, powerscool-based, faced a data violation in January.
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