During a recent Threat Watch Live session, Adam Pilton challenged Morten Kjaersgaard, Heimdal’s Chairman and Founder, to predict three cyber security trends for 2026.  Adam added his own predictions, drawing from this experience as a former cybercrime detective. Spoiler: Both Morten and Adam agreed that 2026 will bring a sharper focus on compliance.   Here’s what they predict.  SMBs catch a break if they’ve done compliance right  Hackers recently discovered there’s no use in targeting […]

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Cyber attacks on retail surged in 2025, with rising breach costs and increasingly sophisticated threats highlighting the sector’s growing exposure. Explore this 2025 retail cybersecurity statistics rundown to see how these trends are evolving—and how the insights can help strengthen your defenses in 2026. For cyber criminals, the retail sector makes for a very attractive […]

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Cyber insurance in 2025 showed slowing market growth, fewer overall claims, and rising attack severity—signaling a maturing but increasingly high-stakes landscape. As premiums climb again and ransomware continues to dominate losses in 2026, these trends will shape how businesses recalibrate their risk strategies and determine the true value of coverage in the year ahead. Investing […]

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Your senior analyst stares at alert number 47. It’s not even lunch. Another “suspicious login detected.” They switch to the third dashboard of the morning, cross-reference the user activity, and confirm what they already knew. Bob from accounting is working late again. Meanwhile, three dashboards over, actual lateral movement is happening on a client’s network. […]

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Researched and written by Heimdal founder Morten Kjaersgaard, this article exposes how even limited cooperation between registry bodies and law enforcement could cripple ransomware networks and raise the cost for cybercriminals. This article serves as a wake-up call. Even limited cooperation between registry bodies and law enforcement could cripple ransomware networks and raise the cost […]

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Small businesses are a big target for cyber criminals. Read our small business statistics rundown to get a true picture of how the sector is being affected in 2025. Until relatively recently, cybercrime wasn’t perceived as a major risk for small businesses. Hackers traditionally focused on larger companies or government bodies with more money and […]

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At Heimdal we’re constantly monitoring the latest industry alerts, media reports, academic research and government data to keep track of password breaches. It’s a crucial part of our work, and means we can advise our customers on emerging threats.  To help you get up to speed, we’ve compiled this collection of some of the most […]

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As Dame Margeret Beckett, a member of the House of Lords recently put it: “The UK has the dubious distinction of being one of the world’s most cyber-attacked nations”. Calculating exactly how many cyber attacks there are per country is extremely difficult (not least because many attacks go unnoticed). But reliable cybersecurity sources estimate the […]

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark  – August 11, 2025 – Security tools meant to protect managed service providers are instead overwhelming them. A new study from Heimdal and FutureSafe reveals that 89% of MSPs struggle with tool integration while 56% experience alert fatigue daily or weekly. The research exposes a dangerous paradox. MSPs experiencing high alert fatigue are […]

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