09 Dec

UK to Europe: The time to counter Russia’s information war machine is now

The UK’s foreign secretary is calling for closer collaboration with Europe to combat the growing threat of information warfare as hybrid attacks target countries on

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09 Dec

UK finally vows to look at 35-year-old Computer Misuse Act

Portugal has become the latest country to carve out protections for researchers under its cybersecurity law. The move increases pressure on the UK after a

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09 Dec

The big catch: How whaling attacks target top executives

Business Security Is your organization’s senior leadership vulnerable to a cyber-harpooning? Learn how to keep them safe. Phil Muncaster 09 Dec 2025  •  , 5

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09 Dec

Whitehall rejects £1.8B digital ID price tag – but won’t say what it will cost

The head of the department delivering the UK government’s digital identity scheme has rejected the £1.8 billion cost forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility

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09 Dec

Researchers spot 700 percent increase in hypervisor ransomware attacks

Researchers at security software vendor Huntress say they’ve noticed a huge increase in ransomware attacks on hypervisors and urged users to ensure they’re as secure

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08 Dec

193 cybercrims arrested, accused of plotting ‘violence-as-a-service’

Nearly 200 people, including minors accused of involvement in murder plots, have been arrested over the last six months as part of Europol’s Operational Taskforce

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08 Dec

UK moves to strengthen undersea cable defenses as Russian snooping ramps up

The UK government has announced enhanced protection for undersea cables using autonomous vessels alongside crewed warships and aircraft, responding to escalating Russian surveillance activities. The

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08 Dec

Home Office kept police facial recognition flaws to itself, UK data watchdog fumes

The UK’s data protection watchdog has criticized the Home Office for failing to disclose significant biases in police facial recognition technology, despite regular engagement between

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08 Dec

Barts Health seeks High Court block after Clop pillages NHS trust data

Barts Health NHS Trust has confirmed that patient and staff data was stolen in Clop’s mass-exploitation of Oracle’s E-Business Suite (EBS), and says it is

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08 Dec

Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner

Gartner’s document warns that AI sidebars mean “Sensitive user data – such as active web content, browsing history, and open tabs – is often sent

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08 Dec

China’s first reusable rocket explodes, but its onboard Ethernet network flew

Asia In Brief Chinese rocketry outfit LandSpace last week flew what it hoped would be the country’s first reusable rocket, only to watch it explode

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08 Dec

Apache warns of 10.0-rated flaw in Tika metadata ingestion tool

Infosec in Brief The Apache Foundation last week warned of a 10.0-rated flaw in its Tika toolkit. Tika detects and extracts metadata from over 1,000

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06 Dec

Death to one-time text codes: Passkeys are the new hotness in MFA

Whether you’re logging into your bank, health insurance, or even your email, most services today do not live by passwords alone. Now commonplace, multifactor authentication

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05 Dec

Crims using social media images, videos in ‘virtual kidnapping’ scams

Criminals are altering social media and other publicly available images of people to use as fake proof of life photos in “virtual kidnapping” and extortion

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05 Dec

Novel clickjacking attack relies on CSS and SVG

Security researcher Lyra Rebane has devised a novel clickjacking attack that relies on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Rebane demonstrated the

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05 Dec

Cloudflare blames Friday outage on borked fix for React2shell vuln

Amid new reports of attackers pummeling a maximum security hole (CVE-2025-55182) in the React JavaScript library, Cloudflare’s technology chief said his company took down its

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05 Dec

Asus supplier hit by ransomware attack as gang flaunts alleged 1 TB haul

Asus has admitted that a third-party supplier was popped by cybercrims after the Everest ransomware gang claimed it had rifled through the tech titan’s internal

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05 Dec

Beijing-linked hackers are hammering max-severity React bug, AWS warns

Amazon has warned that China-nexus hacking crews began hammering the critical React “React2Shell” vulnerability within hours of disclosure, turning a theoretical CVSS-10 hole into a

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