{"id":28085,"date":"2025-07-28T18:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T18:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/28085\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T18:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T18:24:12","slug":"whats-behind-the-recent-surge-in-cyber-claims-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/28085\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s behind the recent surge in cyber claims in Australia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">As a result, incidents that might previously have gone unreported are now formally lodged as claims. Another prime driver of these cyber claims is connected to the relatively low uptake of cyber insurance. \u201cCompared to the US and UK, many small to mid-sized Australian firms are still maturing their cybersecurity posture,\u201d said Hart. \u201cThis creates greater exposure to preventable incidents, especially business email compromise (BEC), credential theft, and ransomware.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a result, incidents that might previously have gone unreported are now formally lodged as claims. Another prime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,27015,27014,44],"class_list":["post-28085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cfc-underwriting","tag-cyberattacks","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}