Weekly Cyber Briefing 27.10.2025
Weekly Cyber Briefing: 27 October 2025
AWS outage exposed the risk of cloud dependency; MoD investigates contractor ransomware incident that exposes sensitive information
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Blogs & Opinions 21.10.2025
UK Rail Industry Faces Growing Cyber Threat as New Legislation Demands Urgent Action
New government legislation threatens tougher penalties for operators failing to protect essential services
Weekly Cyber Briefing 20.10.2025
Weekly Cyber Briefing: 20 October 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 13.10.2025
Weekly Cyber Briefing: 13 October 2025
Teenagers arrested after nursery cyber attack; Ransomware groups buddy up; Lapsus$ adopt new credential-purchasing tactics
Features 07.10.2025
Why Irresponsible Users Put Open Source Security on Shaky Ground
Some of the world’s richest companies are taking advantage of free software. That’s bad news for open source security.
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
Blogs & Opinions 29.09.2025
Why Building Resilience Must Be a Priority for the Aviation Sector
A major cyber-incident across European airports should focus minds on the task.
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 […]
Blogs & Opinions 31.07.2025
Retail Under Fire: How to Avoid a £440m Problem
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?
Interviews 24.07.2025
Five Minutes With: A Head of Geopolitical Risk
Eleanor Dallaway encourages Megha Kumar to spill the tea on all things geopolitical risk, AI and digital market regulation
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.
Features 01.07.2025
AI Autopsy: Adidas Cyber Attack
The latest Adidas incident comes amid a wave of numerous high-profile breaches in the retail sector. Assured Intelligence gives the incident the AI autopsy treatment
General 05.06.2025
AI Autopsy: Five Lessons From The M&S Ransomware Attack
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
Blogs & Opinions 30.12.2024
UK CNI: “The Most Complex Threat Environment We’ve Ever Seen”
The ability to disconnect and reconnect networks at will is the ability to protect CNI from cyber attacks
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 17.12.2024
Five Incidents that Shaped the Cybersecurity Landscape in 2024
Assured Intelligence has compiled a breakdown of the top events that helped define the security landscape in 2024
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?
Blogs & Opinions 07.11.2024
CISO ‘How to’ Without the Bull: Third-Party Risk Management
These blogs will focus on making a tangible difference in a language the business understands. The points are drawn from experience delivering cybersecurity transformation programmes in multiple industries.
Features 24.09.2024
AI Autopsy: National Public Data Breach
137 million email addresses were leaked, alongside 272 million social security numbers.
Features 19.09.2024
SaaS Data Breaches Are Surging: How Should Security Teams Respond?
What do SaaS customers need to do to harness the benefits of the cloud without inviting excessive cyber risk?
Features 05.09.2024
Out of the Shadows: Why it’s Time to Shine a Light on Unmanaged Data
The cost of data breaches is rising. Shadow data is one of the reasons for this.
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
Features 15.08.2024
That Sinking Feeling: How Can the Maritime Industry Improve Cyber Resilience?
Do shipping companies feel anchored down by cyber risk?
Blogs & Opinions 08.08.2024
The Six Biggest Cyber Threats of 2024
Reflecting on 2024 so far, the cyber danger zones can be divided into key areas.
Features 01.08.2024
Danger: Don’t Get Too Close to (the) Edge (Computing)
The monthly addition of edge service and infrastructure CVEs rose by 22%. So, how can CISOs protect the edge more effectively?
Blogs & Opinions 30.07.2024
Cyber Resilience in Healthcare: Tackling Ransomware with Advanced Cyber Defences
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 04.07.2024
Lives on the Line: Life Threatening Cyber Attacks Raising the Stakes for CISOs
Six NHS trusts in London and countless GP practices in surrounding regions recently suffered major disruption after a ransomware attack
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 21.05.2024
A Hacked MoD and the Growing Threat of China
The (cyber) threat posed by China is well-documented.
Features 23.04.2024
Logistics Uncovered: Understanding the Cyber Threat to Physical Supply Chains
After KNP declared bankruptcy following a ransomware attack last year, we investigate the top cyber risks facing the logistics sector.
Features 18.04.2024
Lessons From the xz Utils Supply Chain Attack that Nearly Hacked the World
A Microsoft developer recently discovered one of the most sophisticated software supply chain attacks ever conceived.
Features 21.03.2024
Why Professional Services Are Being Singled Out by Cyber Threat Actors
Phil Muncaster investigates why an industry that deals in knowledge is particularly exposed to info theft and extortion
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 19.12.2023
Around the Cybersecurity World in 365 Days
There’s no such thing as a quiet year on planet cybersecurity. This year’s headlines are next year’s lessons
Features 07.12.2023
When Aggregation Sites Are Targeted: The Booking.com Ripple Effect
Who’s legally liable when aggregation site customers are targeted by hackers?
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 26.10.2023
Five-Minute Snapshot: What You Need to Know About the SecureWorks State of the Threat Report
Top trends include ransomware, nation-state attacks and business email compromise
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
Blogs & Opinions 03.10.2023
Chinese Espionage is Back on Track: What Businesses Need to Know
The stakes just got higher in the world of cyber espionage.
Features 07.09.2023
Retail Sector Cyber Attacks: Shopping for Security
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: Log4j, SolarWinds, What’s Next?
Supply chain risk is responsible for a lot of those big-ticket cyber headlines. What can you do about it?