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20 hours agoAnthropic's Mythos AI model sparks fears of turbocharged hacking
AI-enabled cyber attacks surged 89% in 2025, with attackers acting within 29 minutes of gaining access.
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5 months agoAttacks will get through': head of GCHQ urges companies to do more to fight cybercrime
Companies must implement and test contingency plans, including physical paper backups and communication methods, because cyber-attacks are rising and can disable entire systems.
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fromMail Online
1 month agoIran targets critical US infrastructure as Middle East war spirals
Iran-linked APT group Seedworm infiltrated US critical infrastructure including banks, airports, and defense contractors, installing backdoors for persistent access and potential future attacks.
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fromTechCrunch
1 month agoGoogle says half of all zero-days it tracked in 2025 targeted buggy enterprise tech | TechCrunch
Nearly half of tracked zero-day vulnerabilities in 2024 targeted enterprise devices, with security infrastructure like firewalls and VPNs being primary targets for hackers seeking corporate data access.
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fromComputerWeekly.com
1 month agoIranian hacktivists muster their forces but state APTs lay low | Computer Weekly
Pro-Iran hacktivist groups have intensified cyber attacks across Middle Eastern infrastructure, including breaches at Saudi energy facilities and GPS spoofing attacks affecting over 1,000 Persian Gulf ships during escalating regional conflict.
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1 month agoApplication exploitation back in vogue, says IBM cyber unit | Computer Weekly
Cyber attacks exploiting vulnerable public-facing applications increased 44%, surpassing credential abuse attacks, with AI tools accelerating vulnerability discovery and exploitation.
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2 months agoNATO chief warns UK 'under attack' and 'the public doesn't yet know' - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
The UK faces heightened vulnerability from external threats including cyber attacks, assassinations, and sabotage, and cannot rely fully on the US to guarantee its defense.
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6 months agoCyber-attacks rise by 50% in past year, UK security agency says
In what officials described as a call to arms, national security officials and ministers are urging all organisations, from the smallest businesses to the largest employers, to draw up contingency plans for the eventuality that your IT infrastructure [is] crippled tomorrow and all your screens [go] blank. The NCSC, which is part of GCHQ, said highly sophisticated China, capable and irresponsible Russia, Iran and North Korea were the main state threats, in its annual review published on Tuesday.
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6 months agoBritain may already be at war with Russia, former head of MI5 says
Lady Manningham-Buller argued that the situation had changed since the invasion of Ukraine and the various things I read about that the Russians have been doing here sabotage, intelligence collection, attacking people and so on. Speaking on a podcast in which she was interviewed by the lord speaker, John McFall, she then referenced Hill, who advised Donald Trump during his first term as US president and co-authored the UK's strategic defence review. I think she may be right in saying we're already at war with Russia. It's a different sort of war, but the hostility, the cyber-attacks, the physical attacks, the intelligence work is extensive, she said.
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fromThe Hacker News
9 months ago3,500 Websites Hijacked to Secretly Mine Crypto Using Stealth JavaScript and WebSocket Tactics
"This was a stealth miner, designed to avoid detection by staying below the radar of both users and security tools," security researcher Himanshu Anand said.
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fromComputerWeekly.com
9 months agoFour arrested in M&S cyber attack investigation | Computer Weekly
The arrests of two men aged 19, a third aged 17 and a 20-year-old woman were made at their home addresses in London, Staffordshire, and the West Midlands, with support from West Midlands Regional Organised Crime Unit (Rocu) and the East Midlands Special Operations Unit.
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