Every year, millions of people in the UK are targeted by scams. Hundreds of thousands lose money. In 2025, UK fraud losses reached £3.4 billion — roughly £280,000 every single day to romance fraud alone. Investment scams cost individual victims an average of £40,000 each.
Every year the government asks thousands of UK businesses, charities, schools, and universities a simple but important question: has your organisation been hit by a cyber attack in the past twelve months?
What passwords really are, how they work behind the scenes, and simple ways to make yours stronger — plus what might replace them.
A data breach happens when information that was supposed to be private is accessed by someone who was not supposed to have it. It can happen because of a hack, a supply chain attack, a human error, or sometimes just a misconfigured system that leaves a door open without anyone noticing.
Each time, the mechanism has been the same: attackers find a way into a trusted update system, swap the legitimate contents for something malicious, and let the trust do the rest.
On Tuesday we covered how Anthropic accidentally leaked the source code of Claude Code, and how criminals immediately used that leak as a lure to spread malware. But that story
A routine software release accidentally included a debug file that exposed the entire source code of Claude Code, the company's popular AI coding tool
Imagine you are a builder, and you trust your supplier completely. You have been using them for years
The tool was litellm. The update was versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8. And the damage was done before anyone knew it had started.
Someone calls your IT helpdesk. They sound calm, professional, and helpful. They know the name of an employee. They say there's been a problem with a login and they need a password reset.