January 2026
London boroughs limping back online months after cyberattack
Direct debits? Maybe February. Birth certificates? Dream on. Council tax bills? Oh, those are coming Hammersmith & Fulham Council says payments are now being processed as usual, two months after a cyberattack that affected multiple boroughs in the UK's capital city.…
Marching orders delayed: Veterans’ Digital ID off to a slow start
Much owed to the few, but takeup is under 1% More than 15,000 former members of the UK's armed forces have successfully applied for a digital version of their veterans ID card since its launch in October, according to the Government Digital Service (GDS). …
Crims hit the easy button for Scattered-Spider style helpdesk scams
Teach a crook to phish… Criminals can more easily pull off social engineering scams and other forms of identity fraud thanks to custom voice-phishing kits being sold on dark web forums and messaging platforms.…
FortiGate firewalls hit by silent SSO intrusions and config theft
Admins say attackers are still getting in despite recent patches FortiGate firewalls are getting quietly reconfigured and stripped down by miscreants who've figured out how to sidestep SSO protections and grab sensitive settings right out of the box.…
Europe’s GDPR cops dished out €1.2B in fines last year as data breaches piled up
Regulators logged over 400 personal data breach notifications a day for first time since law came into force GDPR fines pushed past the £1 billion (€1.2 billion) mark in 2025 as Europe's regulators were deluged with more than 400 data breach notifications a day, according to a new survey…
Bank of England: Financial sector failing to implement basic cybersecurity controls
Mind the cyber gap – similar flaws highlighted multiple years in a row Concerned about the orgs that safeguard your money? The UK's annual cybersecurity review for 2025 suggests you should be. Despite years of regulation, financial organizations continue to miss basic cybersecurity safeguards.…
Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers
Critical vuln flew under the radar for a decade A recently disclosed critical vulnerability in the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) is "trivial" to exploit, experts say.…
Another week, another emergency patch as Cisco plugs Unified Comms zero-day
The critical-rated flaw leaves unpatched systems open to full takeover Cisco has finally shipped a fix for a critical-rated zero-day in its Unified Communications gear, a flaw that's already being weaponized in the wild, and which CISA previously flagged as an emergency priority.…
Everest ransomware gang said to be sitting on mountain of Under Armour data
Have I Been Pwned reckons 72.7M customer accounts affected, sportswear firm remains silent Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) says 72.7 million accounts registered with Under Armour were affected by an alleged ransomware attack in November.…
EU considers whether there’s Huawei of axing Chinese kit from networks within 3 years
Still dominant in Germany's networks, among others The European Commission (EC) wants a revised Cybersecurity Act to address any threats posed by IT and telecoms kit from third-country sources, potentially forcing member states to confront the thorny issue of suppliers such Huawei in their national networks.…