Financially motivated threat actors – including ransomware crews – remain the single biggest source of cyber threat in the world, accounting for 55% of active threat groups tracked during 2024, up two percentage points on 2023 and 7% on 2022, demonstrating that cyber crime really does, to a certain extent, pay. At least, this is…
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On a month-by-month basis, recorded ransomware attacks dropped by 32% in March 2025, to 600 in total, according to NCC Group’s latest monthly Threat Pulse data, but the decline appears to be very much a red herring, and likely the result of large, one-off events in previous months that yielded multiple victims, such as Clop/Cl0p’s…
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In the wake of the abrupt termination of the Mitre contract to run CVE Programme, a group of vulnerability experts and members of Mitre’s existing CVE Board have launched a new non-profit with the intention of safeguarding the programme’s future. The CVE Foundation’s founders want to ensure the continuity, viability and stability of the 25-year-old…
CVE Foundation pledges continuity after Mitre funding cut Read More »
Businesses are under attack from all corners of the globe and while many organisations may think that nation-state threat actors would never target or be interested in them, the reality is that no-one is exempt from security threats. Security leaders need to ensure they are staying up to speed on the latest threat intelligence, this…
Collaboration is the best defence against nation-state threats Read More »
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) throughout the UK are losing £3.4bn every year as a result of inadequate and unfit-for-purpose cyber security measures, with more than 30% of businesses having no form of security protections in place whatsoever, and over a quarter being targeted multiple times every year, according to a report produced by Vodafone…
UK SMEs losing over £3bn a year to cyber incidents Read More »
Over 80% of global companies are now using AI to improve business operations. AI has also become a feature of individuals’ daily lives as we interact with chatbots, voice assistants, or predictive search technologies. But as AI diffusion grows, so too do the risks associated with its misuse – particularly by nation state actors engaged…
How CISOs can counter the threat of nation state espionage Read More »
The escalating wave of cyber attacks targeting public and private sectors poses an unprecedented threat. This is readily apparent in healthcare, where securing patient data and building resilient systems is of the utmost importance. Across the UK, NHS trusts have repeatedly found themselves in the crosshairs of attackers, with dire consequences. A 2024 attack on…
The need for secure data sharing: Lessons learned from public health Read More »
On 20 February, every cyber threat intelligence researcher on the planet discovered a new goldmine – a document of almost 50MB size presented as the history of internal exchanges at the Black Basta ransomware group. The cross-referencing of the victims of cyber attacks mentioned in this file with known victims and, in some cases, their…
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Cyber crime has evolved to become a threat to the security of western states, according to a threat intelligence report from Google, published on the eve of the 2025 Munich Security Conference. This coming weekend marks the 61st edition of the Atlanticist conference, which was inaugurated in 1963 to facilitate collaboration between West Germany and…
Google: Cyber crime meshes with cyber warfare as states enlist gangs Read More »
A disgruntled insider appears to have been behind a security incident at the British Museum, which forced the 270-year-old institution to partially close its doors over the weekend of 25 and 26 January following disruption to core IT systems. The incident shuttered two of the museum’s ongoing special exhibitions, one on the history of the…
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