The US Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Act (CISA) of 2015 has expired with no replacement or extension in place amid a chaotic shutdown of the federal government, leaving cyber pros in legal limbo and putting global collaboration on threat intelligence at risk of stalling. The shutdown took effect at the stroke of midnight on 1…
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The Netherlands has launched a Cyber Resilience Network, a public-private partnership aimed at fundamentally overhauling the nation’s approach to digital defence. The initiative, detailed in a comprehensive building plan from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NL), aims to connect over 1,152 organisations in a collaborative framework that extends far beyond simple information sharing to include…
Global supply chains could be vulnerable to attack through third-party suppliers in India, as a report reveals that over half suffered breaches in the country last year. According to research by SecurityScorecard, Indian companies across multiple sectors – including manufacturers supplying the aerospace and pharmaceuticals industries, as well as IT services firms – have security…
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Artificial intelligence (AI) and AI agents are seemingly everywhere. Be it with conference show floors or television adverts featuring celebrities, suppliers are keen to showcase the technology, which they tell us will help make our day-to-day lives much easier. But what exactly is an AI agent? Fundamentally, AI agents – also known as agentic AI…
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Apple has pushed another update to its mobile operating systems, iOS and iPadOS, to address a newly discovered zero-day that is already being exploited by threat actors in the wild to enable so-called zero-click attacks. Tracked as CVE-2025-43300, the flaw is an out-of-bounds write issue in the ImageIO framework – which is used to enable…
The number of ransomware attacks that were observed and tracked during the first six months of 2025 was up by 179% – almost three times – on the same period in 2024, according to statistics published by threat intelligence platform provider Flashpoint. The past year has seen significant turnover among cyber criminal threat actors with…
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Security professional association ISACA is to offer its member base of almost 200,000 accredited security professionals around the world access to a new certification, Advanced in AI Security Management (AAISM), covering the fast-emerging technology. A recent ISACA study revealed that 61% of security professionals were either very or extremely worried that generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)…
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Cyber protection specialists Halcyon and Sophos have teamed up to develop a threat intelligence sharing joint venture that will see the two companies swap data on critical metrics such as indicators of compromise (IoCs), known adversary behaviours and attack patterns. Announced at the annual Black Hat USA event in Las Vegas, the partnership will see…
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Cyber criminal gangs are telling their targets to stop authenticating with Okta services in what the company’s threat management team is describing as a ringing endorsement of its technology and a lesson in why phishing-resistant authentication methods are now not merely a nice-to-have, but a must-have. Due to its position as a first line of…
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Marks & Spencer chairman Archie Norman has described the recent ransomware attack on the retailer’s systems as something akin to an “out-of-body experience” as he called for cyber attack victims to be brave, bite the bullet, and be open and transparent about their experiences. Speaking before the Business and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms…
