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• April 30, 2026 30 Apr'26

  AI is widening the asymmetry between attackers and defenders

  As threat actors leverage AI to launch attacks at machine speed, cyber defenders must adopt an assumed breach mindset and prioritise breach containment

• April 28, 2026 28 Apr'26

  WhatsApp’s encryption protects servers but leaves users exposed to client-side attacks

  The use of encryption helps to secure WhatsApp’s infrastructure, but researchers at Black Hat Asia warn platform’s architecture is driving hackers to target user devices directly

• April 28, 2026 28 Apr'26

  Vect ransomware actually destructive wiper malware

  Analysis of a form of ransomware called Vect has uncovered a serious flaw that breaks its core functionality and turns it from a locker to a wiper

• April 28, 2026 28 Apr'26

  UK data watchdog accused of dragging feet on eVisa investigation

  Despite longstanding data protection issues with the Home Office’s electronic visa system being flagged five months ago, the UK’s data regulator is yet to take any action

• April 28, 2026 28 Apr'26

  Lloyds Bank compensates another 1,625 customers after ‘alarming’ data breach

  Bank pays out compensation to more customers and reveals expansion of affected group

• April 26, 2026 26 Apr'26

  Black Hat Asia: Privacy and cyber security are inseparable

  The separation of privacy and security is no longer tenable in a world where exposed personal data is increasingly the entry point for major cyber incidents, delegates at Black Hat Asia 2026 were told

• April 24, 2026 24 Apr'26

  Wiz founder: Hack yourself with AI, before the bad guys do

  At Google Cloud Next, Wiz co-founder Yinon Costica called on security defenders to use AI to steal a march on threat actors, and launched agentic capabilities for cyber teams

• April 24, 2026 24 Apr'26

  BT has now blocked over a billion clicks to malicious websites, says NCSC

  NCSC’s Share and Defend scheme has seen BT block over a billion clicks through to malicious websites

• April 23, 2026 23 Apr'26

  Medical data of half a million Britons on sale in China after Biobank breach

  Biobank operator is taking steps to improve security after biological, health and lifestyle information from its database was offered for sale on a Chinese website

• April 23, 2026 23 Apr'26

  Chinese hackers using compromised networks to spy on Western companies, says Five Eyes

  Companies urged to take countermeasures as Chinese hacking groups use networks of infected home and office devices ‘at scale’ to evade security monitoring systems

• April 23, 2026 23 Apr'26

  Using AI to manage insider risk amid Middle East conflict

  As geopolitical tensions reshape the cyber threat landscape across the region, organisations are turning to artificial intelligence-driven behaviour analytics, investigative automation and monitoring of AI agents to detect insider risk faster and ...

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  NCSC heralds end of passwords for consumers and pushes secure passkeys

  UK National Cyber Security Centre is urging consumers to replace passwords and two-factor authentication with passkeys, following a technical study that shows they are more secure and easier to use

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  Interview: Critical local infrastructure is missing link in UK cyber resilience

  Jonathan Lee, director of cyber strategy at Trend AI, argues for more focus on local and municipal cyber resilience

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  UK to build ‘national cyber shield’ to protect against AI cyber threats

  Security minister Dan Jarvis calls for artificial intelligence companies to work with government to develop AI-driven cyber defences

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  A&K Travel journeys with Colt for global quantum-safe network

  Travel giant chooses services arm of digital infrastructure provider to build out its global connectivity network based on quantum-safe encryption systems that operate without distance limitations

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  Google launches Gemini Agent Platform, eighth-generation TPUs

  With more AI agents moving to production, Google Cloud is targeting governance, multi-cloud data architecture and purpose-built silicon to help enterprises orchestrate agentic workflows

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  A tsunami of flaws: When frontier AI and Patch Tuesday collide

  Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday drop was the second-largest in history, falling just shy of an October 2025 record. What is behind the spike in vulnerability disclosures, and is there a connection to Anthropic’s bug-hunting Claude Mythos AI model?

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  Three-quarters of UK IT leaders without strong AI governance plans

  Almost one in nine British IT leaders say their organisations use agentic AI, but with few putting in place strong governance plans, according to a Red Hat survey

• April 21, 2026 21 Apr'26

  Nation states responsible for ‘nationally significant’ cyber attacks against UK, says NCSC chief

  The UK is facing four nationally significant cyber attacks a week, the majority from hostile states, NCSC chief, Richard Horne, will warn at the CyberUK conference

• April 21, 2026 21 Apr'26

  Sans Institute preps live systems for Nato cyber exercise

  Cyber training body the Sans Institute is preparing live power generation IT and OT systems for Nato’s annual Locked Shields blue team exercise, which this year appears more relevant than ever

• April 20, 2026 20 Apr'26

  Singapore pushes for global standard to test generative AI

  The proposed standard aims to ensure trustworthy AI by standardising benchmarking and red teaming methodologies, as IMDA’s chief urges faster action on global rules

• April 17, 2026 17 Apr'26

  Surging CVE disclosures force NIST to shake up workflows

  NIST announces big changes to the way it categorises and manages CVEs, which are set to have a big impact on how organisations manage patching and remediation

• April 17, 2026 17 Apr'26

  North Korean social engineering campaign targets MacOS users

  A MacOS-focused social engineering campaign orchestrated by North Korea-based threat actor Sapphire Sleet has been exposed by Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Unit

• April 17, 2026 17 Apr'26

  Bank cyber teams on red alert as Anthropic promises them Mythos next week

  Artificial intelligence supplier promises UK banks opportunity to review AI model, which has already revealed thousands of security flaws

• April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26

  UK’s Sovereign AI supports supercomputing and drug discovery AI startups

  The UK government’s £500m Sovereign AI fund announces first cohort of startups backed to boost economic growth and national security

• April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26

  CyberUK 2026: UK lagging on legal protections for cyber pros

  Ahead of next week’s CyberUK conference, the CyberUp Campaign for reform of the UK’s hacking laws urges the government to keep focus and proposes a four-pillar framework that would protect cyber professionals from prosecution

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  UK businesses must face up to AI threat, says government

  Technology secretary Liz Kendall urges Britain’s business community to sit up and pay attention to emerging AI threats, following the debut of Anthropic’s new frontier model, Mythos

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  Danske Bank upgrade error exposed 20,000 customer addresses

  Danish bank revealed details of a customer data leak last year which affected thousands of customers

• April 14, 2026 14 Apr'26

  April Patch Tuesday brings zero-days in Defender, SharePoint Server

  Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday update may be one of the largest in history, with more than 160 issues in scope

• April 14, 2026 14 Apr'26

  Department for Transport shows how its AI system avoids bias

  A report looking at a system to extract themes from public consultations highlights human and LLM-based checks

• April 14, 2026 14 Apr'26

  UK financial regulators rush to assess risks of Anthropic AI model

  Banks called in by regulators as latest artificial intelligence model identifies thousands of software vulnerabilities

• April 13, 2026 13 Apr'26

  UK reliance on US big tech companies is ‘national security risk’, claims report

  UK government urged to follow European countries by backing technology based on open standards

• April 13, 2026 13 Apr'26

  ‘Grand Theft Auto’ publisher Rockstar hit by hackers again

  The notorious ShinyHunters hacking collective menaces video game publisher Rockstar and says it will leak data on 14 April

• April 13, 2026 13 Apr'26

  In the AI race, a global bank bets on the human touch

  Standard Chartered’s technology and security chief, Alvaro Garrido, says AI will transform finance, but the industry’s biggest vulnerabilities lie outside its own walls

• April 09, 2026 09 Apr'26

  Singapore Cyber Security Agency chief: Cyber stability a necessity, not a luxury

  With state-linked attacks rising and international rules unravelling, Singapore’s cyber security commissioner calls for global cooperation to prevent catastrophic conflict in cyber space

• April 08, 2026 08 Apr'26

  Capita’s troubled Civil Service Pension Scheme hit by data breach

  A data breach affecting 138 members of the Civil Service Pension Scheme piles pressure on the service’s administrator, Capita, amid ongoing issues

• April 08, 2026 08 Apr'26

  Cisco: Network readiness a determining factor for AI success

  Report reveals how firms are harnessing AI to drive progress and overcome industry challenges, with most expecting ‘significant’ increases in connectivity and reliability demands

• April 07, 2026 07 Apr'26

  Russian cyber spies targeting consumer, Soho routers

  The UK’s NCSC and Microsoft have shared details of an ongoing cyber espionage campaign targeting vulnerable network routers, orchestrated by Russian state actor Fancy Bear

• April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26

  How ‘Wikipedia of cyber’ helps SAP make sense of threat data

  SAP runs enormous cloud environments for some of the world’s most heavily-regulated organisations, and in the hyperscale era, data security and compliance were becoming big challenges. It turned to cutting-edge agentic tools from Uptycs to cut ...

• April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26

  What’s driving Oracle’s latest job cuts?

  Thousands of job losses have been reported, affecting many roles at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including those in software engineering and product compliance

• April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26

  NCSC warns high-risk individuals of Signal and WhatsApp social engineering attacks

  NCSC advises on countermeasures for high-risk individuals over phishing attacks on encrypted messaging services, such as Signal, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger

• March 31, 2026 31 Mar'26

  High Court dismisses judicial review against eVisa system

  The High Court rules that the Home Office is acting lawfully in refusing to issue alterative proof of immigration status outside of its electronic visa system, but both the judge and the department accepts that those affected by data quality and ...

• March 31, 2026 31 Mar'26

  Cato Networks unveils modular adoption model for SASE platform

  SD-WAN, SSE, AI security and UZTNA standalone modules at heart of a converged platform that unlocks operational simplicity, resilient connectivity and stronger security

• March 31, 2026 31 Mar'26

  Shrinking PQC timeline highlights immediate risk to data security

  Google’s decision to move up its timeline for migration to post-quantum cryptography highlights that some of the cyber security risks posed by quantum computing are already reality

• March 30, 2026 30 Mar'26

  Stop Scams steps up to online fraud challenge

  After years of putting the building blocks in place, Stop Scams is ready and able to react quickly to fight emerging fraud threats

• March 27, 2026 27 Mar'26

  UK government lacks ambition to fight tax fraud, says PAC

  The Public Accounts Committee says the UK government has dropped the ball on the use of data analytics to tackle tax fraud and error, as the public purse haemorrhages billions of pounds

• March 27, 2026 27 Mar'26

  Lloyds admits coding fault exposed customer transactions

  The bank has responded to the Treasury Committee’s request for information on a major data breach in its banking app

• March 27, 2026 27 Mar'26

  EU Parliament rejects Chat Control message scanning

  MEPs vote down proposals to allow US tech companies to continue scanning private messages for illegal content

• March 26, 2026 26 Mar'26

  Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: The bare metal facts

  The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure appears to have more in common with datacentre hosting than with public infrastructure-as-a-service providers

• March 26, 2026 26 Mar'26

  UAE positions cyber security as pillar of national resilience and digital growth

  Strategic investment and coordination reinforce the country’s ability to withstand complex cyber threats