Weekly Cyber Briefing 06.10.2025
Cyber Intelligence Briefing: 06 October 2025
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46 results for "Incident Response"
Features 02.10.2025
AI Autopsy: How a Supply Chain Attack Hobbled Some of Europe’s Busiest Airports
Heathrow and other European airports ground to a halt after a cyber attack on Collins Aerospace’s Muse system. It’s time for an autopsy.
Weekly Cyber Briefing 29.09.2025
Cyber Intelligence Briefing: 29 September 2025
Harrods, Volvo and the critical supplier threat; Heathrow Hardbit Deep Dive; Hackers use SEO Poisoning to promote Fake Microsoft Teams installers
Weekly Cyber Briefing 22.09.2025
Cyber Intelligence Briefing: 22 September 2025
The Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing is a weekly round-up of the latest cybersecurity news, trends and indicators, curated by our CISO, Nick Harris. Attack on Collins Aerospace plunges European airports into chaos for the third consecutive day A suspected cyber attack targeting a third-party software supplier has caused major flight cancellations and delays at several […]
Features 29.07.2025
Inside the MoD’s New Cyber Command: Why the Government Initiative Needs to be on CISOs’ Radars
The MoD’s Cyber Command will give the UK a decisive defensive advantage. But what does it mean for the private sector?
Blogs & Opinions 10.07.2025
CISO ‘How to’ Without the Bull: Credential Stuffing Response
When credential stuffing attacks hit the retail sector, user friction gets pitted against fraud protection.
Interviews 16.01.2025
Five Minutes With: A Head of Security
Andrey Slastenov is head of security at cloud, edge and AI firm Gcore
Features 19.12.2024
AI Autopsy: Microlise and Supply Chain Dominoes
In late October 2024, telematics provider Microlise was hit by an alleged ransom attack that impacted multiple companies reliant on its solution.
Features 26.11.2024
AI Autopsy: UnitedHealth Ransomware: An Entirely Preventable Attack
How well did UnitedHealth handle the breach, and what can others learn from it?
Features 21.11.2024
Are Backups Beyond Data Enough to Secure Ransomware Resilience?
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
Weighing Up Potential Loss and Prevention in the Wake of Crowdstrike and NetworkRail Outages
Conor O’Neill highlights the true cost of a data breach to your company and how businesses can minimise future risks.
Features 05.11.2024
Shifting the Blame: Should Breached Companies Play Up Their Victimhood?
Can reputation damage after a breach be mitigated with smarter crisis comms?
Features 22.10.2024
AI Autopsy: American Water Cyber Attack
On October 3 2024, American Water, the largest water company in the US, discovered it had been hit by a cyber attack
Features 08.10.2024
Critical Infrastructure Under Cyber Siege
60% of UK CNI organisations have experienced ransomware over the previous year
Features 24.09.2024
AI Autopsy: National Public Data Breach
137 million email addresses were leaked, alongside 272 million social security numbers.
Blogs & Opinions 03.09.2024
Cyber Resilience: Identity is at the Heart of Response and Recovery
It’s happened. Your organisation is now one of the 70% hit by a cyber attack. What now?
Features 22.08.2024
An AI Autopsy: AT&T’s 2024 Data Breaches
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
Interviews 21.08.2024
Five Minutes With: A CISO
What keeps Cyro Cyber’s CISO up at night? Here’s a spoiler…it’s people!
Features 18.06.2024
NVD Meltdown: Three Ways CISOs Can Fill a Growing Gap in their CVE Awareness
With the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) at crisis point, how can CISOs mitigate the risk of vulnerability exposure?
Features 11.06.2024
Dropbox Hack: 5 Lessons from the Dropbox Sign Breach
This incident shows breaches can inadvertently compromise the data of individuals who may not have had a Dropbox account
Features 30.05.2024
Building Back Safer: Why Construction Firms Need to Tackle Mounting Cyber Threats
In a sector focused on building physical things, digital threats have often played second fiddle to physical risks on-site.
Features 30.04.2024
The Stolen iPhone Epidemic
This five-minute read will be the differentiator if you ever find yourself a victim of iPhone theft.
Blogs & Opinions 04.04.2024
You’ve Got an Incident Response Plan, but Have You Tested It?
By failing to prepare, you’re preparing to fail, so get that incident response plan in place, says Chris Denbigh-White If two buildings are ablaze, then it stands to reason that the one with fire marshalls, evacuation plans, sprinkler systems and the one that has taken steps to improve its ability to contain a fire with […]
Features 03.04.2024
Patching Problems: Why Vendor Security Updates Are Letting Down Customers
The MOVEit file transfer software impacted tens of millions of end customers
Interviews 07.03.2024
Five Minutes With: A Field CISO
Meet Dirk Schrader, field CISO (EMEA) and VP of Security Research at Netwrix.
Features 20.02.2024
Exploring DORA: Everything You Need to Know About the Forthcoming Regulation
Phil Muncaster takes a look at the EU’s new blockbuster rules for the IT sector and financial services
Features 13.02.2024
Unpatched Patches: Three Critical Patches that Just Keep Bleeding
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 […]
Interviews 23.01.2024
Getting to Know: Lisa Forte
There’s @LisaForteUK. And then there’s Lisa Forte. Most people only know the former, but Eleanor Dallaway met the ‘real Lisa Forte’ for a walls down heart-to-heart.
Features 18.01.2024
What Not To Do: 23andMe Post-Breach Comms Review
The decision that 23andMe took to blame the victims for a serious data breach has baffled many cybersecurity and PR experts
Features 21.12.2023
When Cyber Attacks Threaten Lives: A Candid Assessment of The Reality of OT Threats
Assured Intelligence talks to hacktivist group GhostSec to get its perspective on industrial control system threats
Features 14.12.2023
The Allen & Overy Ransomware Incident: What You Need to Know
Six lessons that all businesses should take from the Allen & Overy ransomware incident
Features 30.11.2023
The British Library Attack: Are Ransomware Actors Inflating the Severity of Attacks?
Is there any such thing as ransomware that’s ‘not so bad’?
Features 23.11.2023
The Great Cyber Attack Silence
Silence is golden. Except when it comes to cyber attacks…
Features 21.11.2023
The 2023 Sony Breaches: 5 Important Takeaways
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
Black Friday: How Retailers Can Get Through the Cyber Turbulence Unscathed
The high-stakes, high-traffic days of Black Friday and Cyber Monday promise skyrocketing sales but also lurking cyber attacks
Features 31.10.2023
How to Create the Perfect Incident Response Strategy in Eight Steps
It’s time to get your incident response ducks in a row…
Features 17.10.2023
The 7 Worst Hacking Groups in the World
Assured Intelligence introduces seven hacking groups that have risen to infamy, running amok in global networks and leaving a trail of disruption
Features 26.09.2023
PSNI Breaches: The Real Cost of Security Failure
Given Northern Ireland’s deeply troubled political climate, the stakes are high in the aftermath of the PSNI breaches
Interviews 21.09.2023
On the Record with a Ransomware Negotiator: An Unfetted All-Access Interview
If you had one hour to ask a ransomware negotiator anything at all, what would you ask?
Features 22.08.2023
Ransomware Trends: What Every Exec Needs to Know
How can execs protect their business from becoming a victim of ransomware?
Features 06.07.2023
Stormy Seas: Cybersecurity Challenges in the Logistics Sector
From Americold to SolarWinds, logistics companies have been, and continue to be, vulnerable to cyber attacks. Eugene Yiga investigates
Features 29.06.2023
Closed for Business: The Organisations That Suffered Fatal Cyber Attacks that Shut Their Doors For Good
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
Unlocking the Truth: An Inside Look at the ION Ransomware Attack
The ransomware attack on ION is a stark reminder of the increasing cyber threats that financial institutions face.
Features 12.06.2023
Bug Bounty Programme or Penetration Testing: Which is Right For You?
What are the merits of penetration testing versus bug bounty programmes, and which approach enhances overall security most effectively?
Features 30.05.2023
Anatomy of a Stealthy Cyber Attack: 10 Steps to Take in the Aftermath of a Data Breach
Attack prevention is a much-talked about area of security, but what happens after a breach takes place?