How Akira hits thousands of SMBs with $50K-$150K ransoms undetected | Alex Bovicelli

Future of Threat Intelligence · Jun 4, 2026 · 26m

In part two of this conversation, Alex Bovicelli, Senior Director of Threat Intelligence at Tokio Marine HCC - Cyber & Professional Lines Group, gets into what the industry keeps getting wrong about ransomware targeting. The organizations getting hit most often are not the ones making headlines, and the attack methods used against them require far less sophistication than most practitioners assume.

Drawing from claims data across thousands of insured companies, Alex explains how groups like Akira have deliberately built around high-volume, low-ransom SMB campaigns, why unpatched MSP tooling…