Department for Education suffers data breach

The UK’s Department for Education has disclosed a serious data breach orchestrated via a social engineering attack on its external-facing helpdesk. Read more »

Laundry Bear pivots to new exploit days after Zimbra alert

The NCSC and partners warned of a novel phishing technique being deployed against high-profile users of Zimbra’s Communication Suite, but the threat actor behind the campaign already seems to... Read more »

How IT leaders can start the shift to quantum-safe security

One of the myths of post-quantum computing is that IT leaders can make no meaningful progress until they launch a dedicated transformation programme, but there are simple, impactful steps... Read more »

Did an AI agent really break free and attack another company?

The reality of the AI-orchestrated cyber attack on Hugging Face is rather more complicated, and much more worrying, than it might appear at face value Read more »

Bahrain cannot claim sovereign immunity for spyware attack against UK dissidents, top UK court rules

The UK’s Supreme Court rules that Bahrain cannot claim sovereign immunity for infecting the computers of two UK-based dissidents with German-made FinFisher spyware. Read more »

Nvidia pushes ahead with security alliance for AI openness

Nvidia and several businesses have formed a cross-industry alliance to promote open, secure AI to improve cyber defences Read more »

US government to consider AI Kill Switch law

Two US congressmen have introduced a bill to give Washington the power to pull the plug on rogue AI models in an emergency. Read more »

Russian APT Laundry Bear perfects zero-click phishing attack

A newly identified Russian state threat actor is using a novel zero-click phishing technique, likely developed with the help of an AI, to target Western users of Zimbra software... Read more »

MI5 and PSNI ordered to pay damages to BBC journalist Vincent Kearney over unlawful surveillance

The Security Service, MI5 and the Police Service of Northern Ireland have been ordered to pay damages to a former BBC journalist, Vincent Kearney, following multiple attempts to identify... Read more »

Hugging Face ‘hacker’ was rogue OpenAI model

A hacker who broke into Hugging Face’s systems last week has been exposed as a pair of advanced OpenAI frontier models that were trying to cheat on an exam Read more »
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