NHS Highland staff ‘poor practice’ sparks fears of heightened risk of a major cyber attack

NHS Highland is at heightened risk of falling prey to a major cyber attack in part due to “poor practice” by some staff members. The warning, contained in a report to the board assessing risk levels faced in a range Read More …

The Dual-Use Dilemma of AI: Malicious LLMs

A fundamental challenge with large language models (LLMs) in a security context is that their greatest strengths as defensive tools are precisely what enable their offensive power. This issue is known as the dual-use dilemma, a concept typically applied to Read More …

CISA orders feds to patch Oracle Identity Manager zero-day after signs of abuse

CISA has ordered US federal agencies to patch against an actively exploited Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) flaw within three weeks – a scramble made more urgent by evidence that attackers may have been abusing the bug months before a fix Read More …

Understanding the future of offensive AI in cybersecurity

As we step into an era where artificial intelligence (AI) plays an increasingly significant role in cybersecurity, discussions surrounding its offensive capabilities are becoming more prominent. A recent report by Anthropic—a leading AI research lab—has sparked the latest conversation on Read More …

Bournemouth University receives £2.3 million to boost regional and national cyber security

Bournemouth University has been awarded nearly £2.3 million by the Office for Students to develop a new Cyber Competence Centre that will address regional and national cyber skills gaps. As well as upgrading the university’s existing facilities, the investment will Read More …

Tens of thousands more ASUS routers pwned by suspected, evolving China operation

Around 50,000 ASUS routers have been compromised in a sophisticated attack that researchers believe may be linked to China, according to findings released today by SecurityScorecard’s STRIKE team. Dubbed “Operation WrtHug”, the campaign exclusively targets end-of-life ASUS WRT routers, exploiting Read More …

Cloudflare outage impacts thousands, disrupts transit systems, ChatGPT, X and more

A widely used Internet infrastructure company said that it has resolved an issue that led to outages impacting users of everything from ChatGPT and the online game, “League of Legends,” to the New Jersey Transit system early Tuesday. Around 10 Read More …

Google Releases Security Update for Chrome

Google has released security updates for Chrome to address two high severity vulnerabilities in the V8 JavaScript engine. CVE-2025-13223 – Type Confusion in V8 – High severity – Google is aware an exploit exists in the wild. CVE-2025-13224 – Type Read More …

Five major changes to the regulation of cybersecurity in the UK under the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill

As the UK Government has recognized, cyber incidents—such as Jaguar Land Rover, Marks and Spencer, Royal Mail and the British Library—are costing UK businesses billions annually and causing severe disruption. The Government recognizes that cybersecurity is a critical enabler of Read More …

Fortinet Releases Security Advisory for Relative Path Traversal Vulnerability Affecting FortiWeb Products

CISA is aware of exploitation of a newly disclosed vulnerability, CVE-2025-64446, in Fortinet FortiWeb, a web application firewall. This vulnerability affects the following FortiWeb versions:1 8.0.0 through 8.0.1 7.6.0 through 7.6.4 7.4.0 through 7.4.9 7.2.0 through 7.2.11 7.0.0 through 7.0.11 Read More …