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KnowBe4, the global leader in digital workforce security, securing both AI agents and humans, today announced the launch of Custom AI Video Builder, a new capability that lets security admins create custom, AI-generated training videos and deploy them directly into their security awareness training (SAT) programs in minutes. The innovation is the latest addition to KnowBe4's AI-native content customization suite and builds on the company's strategic partnership with Synthesia. Attackers are increasingly using generative AI...

DigiCert has released the findings of its second annual global survey on post-quantum cryptography (PQC), showing that while organisations are actively preparing for the quantum era, measurable progress toward deployment remains minimal. According to the company's newly published Quantum Readiness Outlook, 87% of organisations say they are planning, testing or implementing PQC initiatives. Yet deployment has increased by just two percentage points since last year's survey, leaving only 7% of organisations with quantum-safe or hybrid...

Researchers at Huntress have disclosed a malvertising campaign that abused a public artifact hosted on Anthropic's own claude.ai domain to distribute the SectopRAT information-stealing Trojan, compromising at least 29 organisations in the space of two days. The campaign, which Huntress has named FakeAgent, ran between 21 and 22 July 2026. Victims searching for "Claude Desktop app" on Bing were served a sponsored advertisement that, unlike the surrounding malicious ads, pointed to the legitimate claude.ai domain....

Bridewell has launched BCON Collective, a dedicated Threat Research and Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) practice designed to help organisations better understand, prioritise and respond to today's rapidly changing cyber threat landscape. The new practice brings together Bridewell's existing intelligence-led services, original threat research and specialist analysts under a single identity, reflecting growing customer demand for threat intelligence that informs strategic decision-making rather than simply providing indicators of compromise. According to Bridewell, organisations are looking beyond...

Global ransomware attacks climbed 3% in the second quarter of 2026, rising from 2,165 incidents in Q1 to 2,229, according to NCC Group's latest Quarterly Cyber Threat Intelligence Report. While the increase in volume was modest, the security firm warned that supply chain attacks are growing rapidly in both scale and sophistication, and that the overall trajectory of ransomware activity continues to point upwards. The report recorded 665 ransomware attacks in June alone, with the...

A new threat intelligence report has painted a stark picture of the cyber risks facing the UK and Ireland, describing an environment in which ransomware gangs, nation-state spies and politically motivated hacktivists are increasingly working the same terrain, often against the same victims. The "Cyber Threat Landscape: UK & Ireland" report, published by threat intelligence firm CYFIRMA, finds that financially motivated cybercriminals and state-aligned actors are frequently targeting the same sectors, finance, telecoms, technology, healthcare...

Keeper Security has announced that UK-based construction technology provider Asite has deployed KeeperPAM® to strengthen privileged access management, secrets governance and credential security across its global operations. The deployment, detailed in a newly published customer case study, sees Asite replace a collection of legacy privileged access and secrets management tools with Keeper's unified, cloud-native platform as it looks to improve visibility, simplify administration and better secure access across its international infrastructure. Asite provides cloud-based collaboration...

The Forescout 2026 H1 Threat Review found that more than 37,000 vulnerabilities were published during the first six months of the year, representing a 51% increase year on year. More than half were classified as high or critical severity, while ransomware attack claims rose by 25% to 4,544 incidents, averaging 25 attacks every day. The report, published by Forescout Research – Vedere Labs, analysed more than 37,000 vulnerabilities, over 1,000 tracked threat actors and thousands...

One in four UK businesses (26%) have suffered a cyber incident that originated in their supply chain over the last year, according to new research from business continuity and disaster recovery specialist Databarracks. The finding is particularly striking given that organisations are highly aware of the risk they face: nearly half (48%) admit they have continued working with suppliers despite known resilience or security concerns. The figures come from the Data Health Check 2026, Databarracks'...

The vast majority of enterprise security teams are being blindsided by vulnerabilities that scheduled testing never catches, according to new research from Synack, which describes itself as the provider of the first AI-powered continuous pentest for enterprises. The company's new report, The State of Continuous Security Validation, surveyed enterprise security leaders and practitioners and found that 95% had discovered high or critical vulnerabilities outside their scheduled testing windows within the past year. Of those, 42%...