Saudi Arabia ordered to pay £3m to UK dissident targeted with Pegasus spyware

A court has found that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia subjected a London-based human rights activist to abuse and physical violence after infecting his phone with Pegasus spyware Read more »

Broken decryptor leaves Sicarii ransomware victims adrift

A coding error in an emergent strain of ransomware leaves victims unable to recover their data, even if they cooperate with the hackers’ demands Read more »

Three-quarters of UK IT teams beset by outages due to missing alerts

Splunk finds 75% of UK IT teams had outages from missed alerts in 2025, driven by alert fatigue and tool sprawl. Collaboration between cyber and observability teams can help Read more »

Spanish court acquits suspects denied access to ‘raw’ Sky ECC intercepts in landmark decision

Prosecutors have been told they cannot rely on intercept evidence from the Sky ECC encrypted phone network in the absence of other evidence, unless they disclose the raw intercept... Read more »

AI claims are cheap: The challenge is to work out what’s real

The Security Think Tank considers what CISOs and buyers need to know to cut through the noise around AI and figure out which AI cyber use cases are worth... Read more »

US punts renewal of threat data sharing law to September

US lawmakers have extended the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 for another nine months, buying time to enact a replacement for the legislation. Read more »

Ransomware, reputation, risk: Black Hat Europe in review, 2026 in view

Black Hat Europe made clear that cyber security can no longer be separated from politics, economics and behaviour, as ransomware, AI and long-standing security failures combine Read more »

Sportswear firm Under Armour falls victim to data breach

Details of over 70 million customers of US sportswear giant Under Armour were leaked following a supposed ransomware attack by the Everest gang Read more »

UK government begins trials of digital driving licence

The digital version of the physical driving licence will be made available through an app-based digital wallet, with testing underway before wider roll-out later this year Read more »

UK and China reach out across cyber no-man’s land

London and Beijing have supposedly conducted high-level talks seeking to establish a joint security forum to help deescalate potential cyber flashpoints, according to reports. Read more »
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