Key Takeaways: Koninklijke Philips N.V. has updated its long-term relationship agreement with Exor N.V., giving its largest shareholder the option to increase its stake to as much as 22% of Philips’ issued ordinary share capital and voting rights. The revised ceiling is up from 20%. It does not, by itself, mean Ex
Key Takeaways: Donald Trump has opened a new front in US cyber policy by authorizing selected private companies to attack the digital infrastructure used by foreign criminal organizations. The presidential memorandum directs federal agencies to draw on private-sector expertise when disrupting hostile networks. Par
Key Takeaways: ExfilSquad has published data associated with at least 13 organizations after apparently finding Microsoft Power Pages portals that exposed underlying business records to unauthenticated users, according to new research from Fortra Intelligence and Research Experts (FIRE). The data-extortion group,
Key Takeaways: Texas Hearing Institute has notified 29,744 current and former patients that an unauthorized third party accessed parts of its network, including files containing protected health information. The incident puts a specialty pediatric care institution into a widening group of healthcare entities deali
Key Takeaways: Ransomware groups can close a leak site, abandon a name, and emerge under a different identity without substantially changing the people or methods behind the operation. At Black Hat USA 2026, Intel 471 President and Chief Intelligence Officer Michael DeBolt argued that enterprise defenders should f
Key Takeaways: The ransomware conversation is shifting. Rather than treating employees as an unpredictable weakness addressed through annual training, security leaders are beginning to manage human behavior as a measurable layer of enterprise risk. The Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report found that 62%
Key Takeaways: A burst of junk email may look like an irritating technical failure. In a ransomware access campaign examined by Zscaler ThreatLabz, however, that disruption is deliberate. It creates the problem that a caller posing as corporate IT will conveniently offer to solve. ThreatLabz examined related activ
Key Takeaways: Bridewell has identified confirmed information-stealer telemetry affecting 10 UK Critical National Infrastructure organisations during Q2 2026, highlighting how credential theft can create an early pathway into systems supporting essential services. Manufacturing accounted for 40% of the victims, ma
Key Takeaways: President Donald J. Trump has directed the Federal Government to establish a program allowing vetted United States companies to conduct cyber surveillance and disruptive cyber operations against forei...
Key Takeaways: Commvault has found that paying ransomware attackers remains a common, and frequently ineffective, response among organisations in Australia and New Zealand. The State of Data Resilience ANZ 2026 report found that 34% of organisations experiencing a ransomware attack paid the demand. Among those tha