UK to consult on holding software firms liable for cyber breaches
The consultation is promised for next year and will build on a Law Commission review of product liability that runs until January 14.
The consultation is promised for next year and will build on a Law Commission review of product liability that runs until January 14.
The cyber money sits inside a wider £600 million-plus AI package covering biosecurity, AISI and British AI firms.
IBM figures cited put shadow AI breach incidents at 43%, with an average cost of $5.39 million.
Fixes are in PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35; a public exploit hits before application code runs.
Cloudflare says early attacks are emerging and has pushed temporary firewall rules to all customers, including free accounts.
The new chapter sets out seven problem areas across defence use, AI assurance and resilience.
The UK Legal Aid Agency says hackers stole far older records than disclosed, including about 250,000 predating 2007 and one from 1978.
The UK Legal Aid Agency says its 2025 breach exposed records dating to 1978, including about 250,000 older files.
UK Legal Aid Agency says April 2025 hackers stole records dating to 1978, including about 250,000 pre-2007 files.
The UK will use frontier AI to hunt government flaws and amend cyber law for AI incidents.
US authorities seized China-linked Integrity Tech tools Microscan and FishHub used to hack critical infrastructure.
A US-led coalition seized Flax Typhoon tools Microscan and FishHub operated by China's Integrity Tech.
FBI and six countries say China-linked Integrity Technology Group stole emails and shared them via a third-party portal.
UK and partners attribute global data theft to China-linked Integrity Technology Group and Flax Typhoon-related activity.
A UK lawmaker estimates Russian cyber and sabotage activity costs Britain at least $2.6–$3.3 billion a year.
ASOS says names and contact details may have been accessed after rogue customer notifications; broader hack claims remain unproven.
NCSC says ASOS customer names and contact details may have been accessed after unauthorized notifications.
UK Report Fraud urges passkey adoption after email and social media account takeover losses surged to £6.3m, up from £1.2m.
Attackers chained two Zammad zero-days to breach DIVD and steal volunteer researchers' email addresses.
Horizon3 earned Cyber Essentials Plus certification for the NodeZero AWS EU network supporting its German data-sovereignty site, valid through September 2027.
watchTowr says two unpatched Citrix NetScaler remote code execution zero-days are under active exploitation.
Check Point confirms active exploitation of pre-auth VPN RCE CVE-2026-85102 and zero-day CVE-2026-93616, now both in CISA KEV.
UK reported account-hack losses rose 417% to £6.3M in 2025-26, largely because the new Report Fraud system is capturing previously hidden cases.
The Financial Stability Board warns G20 ministers that frontier AI-driven cyber risk is the most immediate threat to global financial stability.
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