Changes to cyber insurance policies will require businesses to make greater efforts to control access to data and IT systems

SolarWinds has announced it is facing US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement action over the software company's massive data breach in 2020. In a recent 8-K filing with the SEC, the company said it reached an agreement with shareholders, who originally sued SolarWinds over claims they were misled about the 2020 hack.

Zurich American Insurance and Mondelez International have settled their dispute over the confectionary giant’s $100m claim related to the 2017 NotPetya cyber-attack.

The lawsuit, widely considered a test case for property war exclusions concerning cyber-attacks, settled before the four-year-long case ended in the Illinois state court.

It has been reported that Mondelez International has settled its lawsuit against Zurich American Insurance Company, which it brought because the insurer refused to cover the snack giant’s $100-million-plus clean-up bill following the 2017 NotPetya outbreak.

Threat actors have conducted a ransomware attack against a communications platform used by Australian military personnel and defense staff. Named ForceNet, the company is one of the defense department's external service providers employed to run one of its websites.