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Weekly Cyber Briefing 10.11.2025
Kier Group, Informa and LV hit by fresh Cl0p ransomware campaign; Cyber attack disrupts Dutch broadcaster RTV Noord, but station stays on air; Nikkei and Hyundai affiliates hit by data breaches
Features 06.11.2025
Could this be the most significant security vendor incident since SolarWinds?
Weekly Cyber Briefing 04.11.2025
University of Pennsylvania hackers release 1.2 million donor records; Chinese manufacturer can remotely disable Norway’s electric buses; Danger: Phishing! (hidden characters can bypass cybersecurity defence)
Blogs & Opinions 28.10.2025
CTI doesn’t have to be expensive or time-consuming.
Weekly Cyber Briefing 27.10.2025
AWS outage exposed the risk of cloud dependency; MoD investigates contractor ransomware incident that exposes sensitive information
Blogs & Opinions 21.10.2025
New government legislation threatens tougher penalties for operators failing to protect essential services
Weekly Cyber Briefing 20.10.2025
F5 breach exposes source code in suspected state-backed cyber attack; UK Government tells Boards that cyber accountability sits with them; Ransomware campaign abusing Azure certificates disrupted by Microsoft
Weekly Cyber Briefing 29.09.2025
Harrods, Volvo and the critical supplier threat; Heathrow Hardbit Deep Dive; Hackers use SEO Poisoning to promote Fake Microsoft Teams installers
Blogs & Opinions 31.07.2025
Marks & Spencer, Co-op and Harrods were hit within days of each other. What went wrong, and what do retailers need to do to ensure they’re not next?
Features 22.07.2025
Responsible for three quarters of last year’s credential thefts, infostealers are not to be underestimated
Blogs & Opinions 10.07.2025
When credential stuffing attacks hit the retail sector, user friction gets pitted against fraud protection.
Features 08.07.2025
Understanding how adversaries can abuse legitimate tools and infrastructure is an increasingly important part of the CISO’s role.
Features 24.06.2025
Quantum computing promises to change the fundamentals of computation in ways we haven’t seen since the introduction of the ENIAC
Features 17.06.2025
M&S, MGM Resorts, and Santander are among ‘The Com’s’ growing list of victims
General 05.06.2025
A month after the ransomware cyber assault, M&S is yet to get services back up and running. Kate O’Flaherty gives the crisis the AI autopsy treatment
Features 17.12.2024
Assured Intelligence has compiled a breakdown of the top events that helped define the security landscape in 2024
Features 21.11.2024
In an era of increasing ransomware, backups aren’t enough. Are new capabilities to restore your entire tech infrastructure the answer?
Blogs & Opinions 14.11.2024
Conor O’Neill highlights the true cost of a data breach to your company and how businesses can minimise future risks.
Features 26.09.2024
The British Library has shared a detailed report of the 2023 cyber incident and its aftermath. Assured Intelligence picks out the highlights for our autopsy report
Features 24.09.2024
137 million email addresses were leaked, alongside 272 million social security numbers.
Features 05.09.2024
The cost of data breaches is rising. Shadow data is one of the reasons for this.
Blogs & Opinions 03.09.2024
It’s happened. Your organisation is now one of the 70% hit by a cyber attack. What now?
Features 29.08.2024
Cybersecurity is often a ‘grudge purchase’ made after a successful cyber attack has damaged a company, rather than before.
Features 22.08.2024
The first in our AI Autopsy series…Features that analyse and dissect recent cyber incidents, providing lessons learnt so cybersecurity professionals can avoid history repeating itself
Features 13.08.2024
A combination of mis-sold policies, coverage small print, and generalist brokers threaten to do more harm than good.
Blogs & Opinions 08.08.2024
Reflecting on 2024 so far, the cyber danger zones can be divided into key areas.
Blogs & Opinions 30.07.2024
When it comes to protecting healthcare data and systems, the threat is high, and the stakes are even higher, warns Dr. Darren Williams In early June 2024, major London hospitals, including Kings College Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’s, declared a critical incident following a ransomware attack on Synnovis, a pathology services provider. This cyber […]
Features 18.06.2024
With the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) at crisis point, how can CISOs mitigate the risk of vulnerability exposure?
Features 11.06.2024
This incident shows breaches can inadvertently compromise the data of individuals who may not have had a Dropbox account
Features 14.05.2024
Education was the most attacked sector in the UK in the last six months
Features 23.04.2024
After KNP declared bankruptcy following a ransomware attack last year, we investigate the top cyber risks facing the logistics sector.
Features 21.03.2024
Phil Muncaster investigates why an industry that deals in knowledge is particularly exposed to info theft and extortion
Features 13.02.2024
Unpatched issues can result in dire consequences, as the worst flaws of recent times show. Kate O’Flaherty considers the podium of recent unpatched flaws and questions why firms are so slow to patch Patching: You can’t live with it, but you definitely can’t live without it. And as many firms have discovered, failing to patch […]
Features 18.01.2024
The decision that 23andMe took to blame the victims for a serious data breach has baffled many cybersecurity and PR experts
Features 19.12.2023
There’s no such thing as a quiet year on planet cybersecurity. This year’s headlines are next year’s lessons
Features 14.12.2023
Six lessons that all businesses should take from the Allen & Overy ransomware incident
Features 30.11.2023
Is there any such thing as ransomware that’s ‘not so bad’?
Features 21.11.2023
Sony’s reputation has taken a bashing over the last few months after it was hit by two high-profile breaches.
Features 07.11.2023
The high-stakes, high-traffic days of Black Friday and Cyber Monday promise skyrocketing sales but also lurking cyber attacks
Features 26.10.2023
Top trends include ransomware, nation-state attacks and business email compromise
Features 17.10.2023
Assured Intelligence introduces seven hacking groups that have risen to infamy, running amok in global networks and leaving a trail of disruption
Blogs & Opinions 12.10.2023
The cloud undoubtedly comes with many positives, but it has also led to businesses storing far more data than they need to
Features 26.09.2023
Given Northern Ireland’s deeply troubled political climate, the stakes are high in the aftermath of the PSNI breaches
Features 07.09.2023
The retail sector has made headlines due to many high-profile (and costly) data breaches. What can retailers do to stay clear of the front pages?
Features 31.08.2023
Supply chain risk is responsible for a lot of those big-ticket cyber headlines. What can you do about it?
Blogs & Opinions 27.07.2023
Government departments are exploiting loopholes to avoid cybersecurity failure disclosures, and increasingly relaxed regulation means they’re getting away with it, bemoans Jon Fielding After five years of GDPR and three years of hybrid working, you’d expect organisations to have improved their data handling and device security. But in the public sector, losses are still […]
Blogs & Opinions 18.07.2023
Data breaches have taken a terrifying turn as cyber criminals stoop to new lows, threatening to expose personal and intimate photos of female data breach victims. Nikki Webb investigates the painful consequences that breach victims face Louise, a resident of South Wales, found herself caught in a web of deceit and fear after her private […]
Features 11.07.2023
If you don’t have time to read all 89 pages of the Verizon’s DBIR, Assured Intelligence has pulled out the highlights in a five-minute read
Features 06.07.2023
From Americold to SolarWinds, logistics companies have been, and continue to be, vulnerable to cyber attacks. Eugene Yiga investigates
Features 29.06.2023
Assured Intelligence has taken a look at some of the companies that have gone out of business due to a cyber-attack to bring you the low-down on what happened in each case.
Features 15.06.2023
The ransomware attack on ION is a stark reminder of the increasing cyber threats that financial institutions face.
Features 30.05.2023
Attack prevention is a much-talked about area of security, but what happens after a breach takes place?
Features 23.05.2023
Clear, concise and transparent communication can help limit the damage to a firm’s reputation following a cyber-attack, but it’s not easy to get right
Blogs & Opinions 18.05.2023
While cybersecurity is a top concern for education institutions, many face resource limitations when it comes to constructing proper cyber defence strategies due to a lack of budget, staff, and technology.
Features 16.05.2023
There are three categories of hackers particularly interested in targeting the energy sector. Who are they? And what can be done to protect energy?
Features 04.05.2023
Does your organisation have a ‘Pentagon leaker’? It’s time to find out
Blogs & Opinions 22.03.2023
Cyber insurance is no longer niche, and is a topic that needs to find its way into the boardroom, says Andy Harris
Features 17.03.2023
Cyber attackers are increasingly banking on poor cybersecurity practices in financial institutions, raking in profits thanks to legacy practices and tech.
Features 03.03.2023
Kate O’Flaherty compiles five outrageous cybersecurity predictions for 2023 made by experts with their tongues firmly in their cheeks
Features 16.02.2023
Large quantities of sensitive data coupled with chronic under-investment in security have made the legal sector a prime target for cyber criminals.
Features 15.02.2023
Many have been quick to reprehend Royal Mail for its handling of the recent cyber attack. Gordon Smith analyses the response to deliver a verdict on Royal Mail’s operation
Features 10.02.2023
Alex Meehan looks at ways to crack the password conundrum
Features 07.02.2023
Cyber incidents can define a CEO’s career, as can a blush-worthy security faux pas.
Features 07.02.2023
It’s hardly setting the world alight by announcing that determining cyber risk is crucial to a successful cybersecurity response. Kathryn Pick helps to identify how an organisation goes about identifying where that risk lies
Features 19.12.2022
ESET’s Jake Moore takes on Assured’s Ed Ventham in a debate on cyber insurance
Features 30.11.2022
What do you get when you mix an incident responder, a lawyer and a cyber broker?
Features 24.08.2022
The first 24 hours post cyber incident are critical: This is the inside scoop.