Signed packages, a six-minute supply chain blitz, and ransomware using blockchain to hide its C2. Today's brief covers two threats that reach well beyond enterprise targets.
Strip out Microsoft licensing. If your provider is below £50 per user per month outside London or £75 inside it, something has been removed. The maths does not lie.
If your IT provider is thirty-five quid a head cheaper than the sensible option, you are not saving money. You are buying yourself a more dramatic disaster later.
AI is now writing zero-day exploits. Cloud infrastructure is being weaponised against your staff. And TrickMo just made its banking trojan significantly harder to detect.
Attackers can own your WordPress store without a password. cPanel has fresh critical flaws. CISA just confirmed active exploitation of Ivanti. Three reasons to act today.
DSIT publishes a misleading headline figure every April. They also publish a more honest cyber crime number in the same report. Guess which one the press, the vendors, and your MSP quote at you.
APT28 is rewriting your router's DNS settings. Ivanti EPMM has a zero-day with active exploitation. And threat actors are abusing remote management tools to drop malware via phishing. Here is what UK SMBs need to know today.
A critical Palo Alto firewall flaw is being actively exploited with no patch yet available. If your MSP manages a PAN-OS device, ask them one question.
State-sponsored actors had a month inside Palo Alto firewalls before the advisory came out. Storm-1175 is still moving. And your developers may have already run the poisoned package.
Google Chrome has been quietly dropping a 4 GB AI model onto user machines. No clear prompt. No informed consent. Just a mystery file buried in a browser profile. This is not about AI being evil. This is about a vendor treating your disk space, your bandwidth, and your governance obligations as someone else's problem.
A Palo Alto firewall zero-day is being actively exploited right now. And MuddyWater is using Microsoft Teams to walk through your front door. Both matter today.
WordPress sites can be taken over without a password. A Linux root exploit is being actively weaponised. And a nation-state group is still walking through Exchange servers that weren't patched in 2021.
Awareness went up. Risk assessments went down. Continuity plans dropped 9 points. If concern was a control, the survey numbers would look very different.
A fake Teams installer is dropping backdoors globally. A third-party analytics vendor handed ShinyHunters 119,000 email addresses. And UK romance fraud hit £102M last year. Three stories, one briefing.