Reports on cybersecurity incidents, policy, public services, privacy, advisories, and regional developments connected to the United Kingdom.
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United Kingdom covers cybersecurity and information-security developments connected to United Kingdom, including incidents, policy, privacy, advisories, research, and news affecting organizations, public services, and digital systems in the area.
For practitioners, the tag provides geographic context for developments involving United Kingdom's organizations, services, partners, and users. Individual articles provide the specific technologies, threats, sectors, and operational implications relevant to each development.
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The US government's restrictions on Anthropic and OpenAI frontier models have intensified calls in the UK and other countries to reduce their reliance on US tech companies, with significant cyber implications.
In a first, the UK and the EU jointly imposed sanctions on Russian individuals and entities for cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns in the region.
The UK will ban adolescents under 16 years old from user-to-user social media platforms, despite age verification issues and privacy concerns.
Threat actors are publishing RubyGems packages that include scrapers targeting public-facing UK government servers, but with no clear objective.
These rulings prohibit the entities from entering or doing business in the European Union.
Sam Collins and Marius Muench of the University of Birmingham, UK, join the Black Hat USA 2025 News Desk to explain how anti-cheat systems in video games provide valuable lessons on defending against threat actors' techniques and strategies.
The UK telco said it temporarily took some systems offline as a "protective" measure in its investigation.
The UK's National Crime Agency arrested four people, who some experts believe are connected to the notorious cybercriminal collective known as Scattered Spider.
Insurance experts weigh in how the recent barrage of attacks against UK retailers could affect premium rates and policy requirements, as well as work toward improving risk assessment.
The threat group games IT help desks to gain entry into retailer networks, and signs show it has shifted its attention from the UK to US targets.
The voluntary Software Security Code of Practice is the latest initiative to come out of the United Kingdom to boost best practices in application security and software development.
A series of cyberattacks have struck multiple major British retailers in recent weeks, and a ransomware gang has reportedly claimed responsibility.
Artificial intelligence poses a significant concern when it comes to nation-state cyberthreats and AI's ability to supercharge attacks.
Recently, 57 countries signed an agreement pledging an "open" and "inclusive" approach to AI's development. The US and UK were not among them, with the US vice president implying productivity should be the priority over safety. Should the opportunity for AI to drive innovation and productivity be prioritized over safety and security?
Investigators at the ICO are looking into how (or if) TikTok, as well as Reddit and Imgur, are enforcing UK privacy protections for 13- to 17-year-old users.
The UK's Southern Water has been forced to shell out millions due to a Black Basta cyberattack, and it has come to light that the total could include a ransom payment.
US, UK, and Australian law enforcement have targeted a company called Zservers (and two of its administrators) for providing bulletproof hosting services to the infamous ransomware gang.
Alder Hey Children's Hospital got hit with a ransomware attack, while the nature of an incident at Wirral University Teaching Hospital remains undisclosed.
A collaboration with the FBI and law-enforcement agencies in Europe, the UK, and Australia, Operation Magnus has seized servers and source code related to the two malware families, which have stolen data from millions of victims worldwide.
British Transport Police and Network Rail are investigating the incident, in which bad actors posted Islamophobic messages on the transport system's network.