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UK ransomware fell sharply, but successful breaches still increased overall. SonicWall’s latest figures suggest attackers are pursuing fewer, higher-damage targets while long-standing vulnerabilities continue to expose organisations.
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Three new guides aim to secure fast-changing enterprise AI systems. They apply the CIS Controls to LLMs, AI agents, and MCP environments with practical recommendations for enterprise teams.
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Cyber professionals say breach handling still carries pressure inside organisations. Kocho’s survey found blame culture, board pressure, and disclosure concerns continue to complicate incident response.
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Finance led UK privacy complaints across major sectors last year. Bridewell’s ICO analysis found continued increases in finance, health, and retail and manufacturing complaint volumes.
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A quantum security provider has secured new portfolio backing today. Arqit will join Tomorrow Street’s scaleup portfolio as demand grows around post-quantum migration and cyber resilience.
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Ministers warned boards AI is accelerating cyber risk across sectors. An open letter says frontier models are advancing faster in offensive cyber tasks, forcing companies to tighten governance, cyber hygiene, and incident preparedness.
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Gallagher says executive impersonation fraud is now hitting UK businesses. New research points to deepfakes, voice cloning, and online executive exposure as growing risks for companies facing financial, legal, and operational disruption.
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Cyber crises demand more than technical teams and technical fixes. Dan Potter of Immersive argues HR, legal, and communications must be drilled alongside security staff, with rehearsed handoffs and role-swap exercises helping organisations respond faster, and with greater cohesion, when incidents hit.
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Basic security mistakes still dominate major cloud breaches, Wiz warns. New research says AI is widening the environments where known weaknesses appear, rather than creating entirely new classes of risk.
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Unapproved AI use is outpacing policy inside UK workplaces today. Studio Graphene’s research suggests many organisations remain exposed on governance, communication, and oversight as employees adopt unsanctioned AI tools faster than leadership teams respond.