Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Cyber-espionage campaigns are targeting employees directly, including through hiring processes, report claims Read via The Guardian.
Read MoreUsers could see wage payments, benefit transfers and National Insurance numbers. Read via Computing.
Read MoreThe UK is trailing in the race to regulate AI, according to new research examining how governments around the world are responding to the rapid rise of the technology. Read more via Computing.co.uk
Read MoreIn the wake of a major series of new US and Israel-led attacks on Iran and subsequent retaliatory strikes on Gulf states including Bahrain, Kuwait and the UAE, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has reassured British organisations that there is likely no significant change in the direct cyber threat posed by Iranian actors. Read via […]
Read MoreThe UK Information Commissioner’s Office has won an important appeal relating to data protection obligations arising from a 2017-18 cyber attack at electronics retailer Currys PC World. Read more via ComputerWeekly.
Read MoreThe so-called “AI skills” used to scale and execute AI operations are dangerously exposed to data theft, sabotage and disruption, TrendAI has warned. Read via Infosecurity Magazine.
Read MoreA series of cyber attacks against the Polich electricity grid that unfolded at the end of December 2025 have prompted a fresh warning from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), alerting British utilities to the dangers of intrusions orchestrated by Russian state threat actors. Read the full story on ComputerWeekly.com
Read MoreSecurity filters caught one phishing email every 19 seconds in 2025, more than double the rate a year previously, Cofense has revealed. AI technology is helping threat actors to increase the speed and scale of attacks, to the point where detected phishing emails last year far outstripped 2024 figures of one every 42 seconds, the […]
Read MoreNike is investigating a confirmed cyberattack after the WorldLeaks ransomware group claimed it stole and leaked around 1.4TB of internal data. Read via Computing.
Read MoreThe Welsh Ambulance Service has recorded more than 600 data breaches over the past three years, according to recent data. Read Here.
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