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• September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25

  Cyber attackers damage Jaguar Land Rover production

  Jaguar Land Rover reports a cyber attack has ‘severely disrupted’ its vehicle production and retail operations, recalling similar attacks on other prominent British brands this year

• September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25

  Fujitsu’s roots in government go too deep

  MPs and peers call on prime minister to review Japanese supplier’s ‘eligibility’ to bid for government contracts

• August 28, 2025 28 Aug'25

  UK cyber security centre helps expose China-based cyber campaign

  GCHQ cyber security centre and its international partners release details of malicious cyber activity linked to Chinese businesses

• August 27, 2025 27 Aug'25

  FairPrice taps Google Cloud to build agentic AI workforce

  Singapore’s largest retailer is deploying a suite of agentic AI applications built on Google’s Gemini, Vertex AI and Agentspace to transform its customer experience and internal workflows

• August 27, 2025 27 Aug'25

  Incident response planning cuts the risk of claiming on cyber security insurance

  Proper attention to incident response planning is emerging as a core cyber control when it comes to reducing the risk of having to claim on cyber security insurance, according to a report

• August 27, 2025 27 Aug'25

  Home Office Fujitsu contract is ‘de facto’ conflict of interest in Post Office police probe

  Fujitsu supplies police with the network that supports national investigations, while its former staff are part of a national investigation

• August 27, 2025 27 Aug'25

  Ransomware activity levelled off in July, says NCC

  Ransomware levels held steady in the month of July, although the risk remained as persistent as ever

• August 26, 2025 26 Aug'25

  Three new Citrix NetScaler zero-days under active exploitation

  Citrix patches three new vulnerabilities in its NetScaler lines warning of active zero-day exploitation by an undisclosed threat actor

• August 26, 2025 26 Aug'25

  Okta makes AI identity play with Axiom acquisition

  Okta says Axiom Security’s technology will reinforce its own offerings in privileged access management, especially when it comes to the growing number of non-human identities

• August 25, 2025 25 Aug'25

  Ransomware attack volumes up nearly three times on 2024

  During the first six months of 2025, the number of observed and tracked ransomware attacks far outpaced the volume seen in 2024

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Moscow exploiting seven-year-old Cisco flaw, says FBI

  US authorities warn of an uptick in state-sponsored exploitation of a seven-year-old vulnerability in Cisco's operating system software

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Apple iOS update fixes new iPhone zero-day flaw

  Latest Apple zero-day found in the ImageIO framework opens the door for targeted zero-click attacks on iPhone users

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Police investigation into Post Office scandal to cost more than £50m

  Metropolitan Police-led investigation into Post Office scandal is expected to run to 2030 and cost taxpayers tens of millions of pounds

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Subpostmaster federation accepted money from Fujitsu in run-up to High Court Post Office trial

  The National Federation of Subpostmasters accepted sponsorship money from Fujitsu in the run-up to a High Court case examining the IT firm’s faulty Post Office system

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  Microsoft starts including PQC algorithms in cyber foundations

  Microsoft updates on its post-quantum cyber strategy as it continues integrating quantum-safe algorithms into some of the core foundations underpinning its products and services

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  Commvault users told to patch two RCE exploit chains

  Storage firm Commvault fixes four vulnerabilities that, when combined, create a pair of RCE exploit chains that could be used to target on-premise customers with ransomware and other nasties

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  Interview: David Walmsley, chief digital and technology officer, Pandora

  The jewellery retailer is building on a four-year digital transformation by adding agentic AI alongside a major overhaul of its back-end ERP infrastructure

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  Metropolitan Police contract with Fujitsu is ‘potential conflict of interest’ amid Post Office probe

  Freedom of information request reveals sub-contract between Fujitsu and the police force leading nationwide investigation of the IT firm’s part in the Post Office scandal

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  Google spins up agentic SOC to speed up incident management

  Google Cloud elaborates on its vision for securing artificial intelligence unveiling new protections and capabilities across its product suite

• August 18, 2025 18 Aug'25

  Workday hit in wave of social engineering attacks

  A campaign of voice-based social engineering attacks targeting users of Salesforce’s services appears to have struck HR platform Workday

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  UK cyber leaders feel impact of Trump cutbacks

  The ripple effects of US cyber security cutbacks have reached this side of the Atlantic, according to a report

• August 13, 2025 13 Aug'25

  Fujitsu orders staff to retain Post Office-related documentation as it braces for legal action

  Japanese supplier tells all UK staff to preserve documents related to its work with the Post Office

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Eight critical RCE flaws make Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday list

  Microsoft rolls out fixes for over 100 CVEs in its August Patch Tuesday update

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Researchers firm up ShinyHunters, Scattered Spider link

  ReliaQuest researchers present new evidence that firms up a potential link, or outright partnership, between the ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider cyber gangs

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  UK work visa sponsors are target of phishing campaign

  Mimecast identifies a phishing campaign targeting UK organisations that sponsor migrant workers and students, opening the door to account compromise and visa fraud

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Black Hat USA: Startup breaks secrets management tools

  Researchers at Cyata, an agentic identity specialist that has just emerged from stealth, found 14 CVEs in the widely used CyberArk Conjur and HashiCorp Vault enterprise secrets management platforms

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Cyber criminals would prefer businesses don’t use Okta

  Okta details a phishing campaign in which the threat actor demonstrated some unusually strong opinions on what authentication methods they would like their targets to use

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  Attacker could defeat Dell firmware flaws with a vegetable

  Cisco Talos discloses five vulnerabilities in cyber security firmware used on Dell Latitude and Precision devices, including one that could enable an attacker to log on with a spring onion

• August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

  Black Hat USA: Halcyon and Sophos tag-team ransomware fightback

  Ransomware experts Halcyon and Sophos are to pool their expertise in ransomware, working together to enhance data- and intelligence-sharing and bringing more comprehensive protection to customers

• August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

  Proliferation of on-premise GenAI platforms is widening security risks

  Research finds increased adoption of unsanctioned generative artificial intelligence platforms is magnifying risk and causing a headache for security teams

• August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

  Integrated platforms offer lifeline to Singapore’s F&B sector

  A partnership between payments firm Adyen and restaurant operating system provider Atlas is helping merchants to streamline operations, slashing errors by up to 80% and boosting sales as the sector faces record closures

• July 30, 2025 30 Jul'25

  Scattered Spider tactics continue to evolve, warn cyber cops

  CISA, the FBI, NCSC and others have clubbed together to update previous guidance on Scattered Spider's playbook, warning of new social engineering tactics and exploitation of legitimate tools, among other things

• July 30, 2025 30 Jul'25

  MS Authenticator users face passkey crunch time

  The deadline for moving to passkeys in Microsoft Authenticator is rapidly approaching, and users are advised to take action now

• July 30, 2025 30 Jul'25

  AI-enabled security pushes down breach costs for UK organisations

  Organisations that are incorporating AI and automation into their cyber security practice are seeing improved outcomes when incidents occur, according to an IBM study

• July 29, 2025 29 Jul'25

  Global cyber spend will top $200bn this year, says Gartner

  Worldwide spending on cyber security will hit another record high in 2025, and will go higher still next year

• July 28, 2025 28 Jul'25

  Tesco IT problems lead to undelivered groceries and angry customers

  Tesco customers have been left without groceries after IT problems disrupted deliveries from stores and fulfilment centres

• July 28, 2025 28 Jul'25

  European digital market figurehead pleads to Westminster

  Big EU industry joins with Europhile MP to persuade obstinate government officials to join the dataspaces intended to become the bedrock of Europe’s digital single market

• July 25, 2025 25 Jul'25

  Post Office will not compensate subpostmasters for IT outage

  Subpostmasters were unable to trade for nearly two hours last week when a problem at a Fujitsu datacentre put the Horizon system offline, but they will receive no payment for lost business

• July 25, 2025 25 Jul'25

  Fujitsu to cut at least 100 more UK staff

  Some Fujitsu employees feel they are suffering for the actions of the company’s management in the Post Office scandal

• July 24, 2025 24 Jul'25

  SharePoint users hit by Warlock ransomware, says Microsoft

  Microsoft’s security analysts confirm a number of cyber attacks on on-premise SharePoint Server users involve ransomware

• July 24, 2025 24 Jul'25

  Dutch researchers use heartbeat detection to unmask deepfakes

  Dutch method to counter deepfakes analyses blood flow patterns in faces that current deepfake generation tools cannot yet replicate

• July 23, 2025 23 Jul'25

  Subpostmasters shoulder costs of Fujitsu’s Post Office IT outage

  Fujitsu datacentre outage hit subpostmaster sales for two hours, leaving subpostmasters to seek compensation

• July 22, 2025 22 Jul'25

  Microsoft confirms China link to SharePoint hacks

  Microsoft confirms two known China-nexus threat actors, and one other suspected state-backed hacking group, are exploiting vulnerabilities in SharePoint Server

• July 22, 2025 22 Jul'25

  Chinese cyber spies among those linked to SharePoint attacks

  Exploitation of the ToolShell RCE zero-day in Microsoft SharePoint continues to gather pace, with evidence emerging of exploitation by nation state-backed threat actors

• July 21, 2025 21 Jul'25

  Patch ToolShell SharePoint zero-day immediately, says Microsoft

  The active exploitation of a dangerous zero-day vulnerability chain in Microsoft SharePoint – which was disclosed over the weekend – is underway. Immediate action is advised

• July 21, 2025 21 Jul'25

  The Security Interviews: Jason Nurse, University of Kent

  Jason Nurse, reader in cyber security at the University of Kent, discusses the psychological side of cyber and online safety, why placing blame on users as ‘the weakest link’ is wrong – and why security pros should think about user needs more

• July 18, 2025 18 Jul'25

  Peer warns IT suppliers against partnering with Fujitsu in government contracts

  According to publicly available figures, Fujitsu has won over half a billion pounds in government business as prime contractor since January 2024, but there is more than what has been reported

• July 18, 2025 18 Jul'25

  First Post Office Capture conviction referred to Court of Appeal

  A former Capture software user’s 1998 theft conviction is the first to be referred to the Court of Appeal

• July 16, 2025 16 Jul'25

  Co-op chief ‘incredibly sorry’ for theft of 6.5m members’ data

  Co-op chief executive Shirine Khoury-Haq has revealed that all the personal data of all 6.5 million of its members was compromised in the April 2025 cyber attack on its systems

• July 16, 2025 16 Jul'25

  Scattered Spider playbook evolving fast, says Microsoft

  Microsoft warns users over notable evolutions in Scattered Spider’s attack playbook, and beefs up some of the defensive capabilities it offers to customers in response