Artificial Intelligence
The short version (because humans love shortcuts) AI is changing UK cyber security in two directions at once: The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is blunt about the direction of travel: AI will increase the frequency and intensity of cyber threats as it makes parts of intrusion operations more effective and efficient. 1) How AI is […]
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Phishing — the practice of tricking individuals into revealing passwords, payment information or sensitive data — remains the single most common cybercrime in the UK.According to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), more than 80% of reported cyber incidents in 2025 began with a phishing email or text message. Despite billions spent on security upgrades, phishing works for one
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly redefining the UK’s cyber security landscape. Whether it’s the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) defending national infrastructure or financial firms securing personal data, the question is no longer if AI should be part of defence — it’s how much we can trust it to replace the human eye. Below we break down exactly how AI
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Cyber Security
In short: no, the UK is not completely at the mercy of AI‑driven cyber attacks – but AI has made the threat landscape more dangerous, faster and harder to manage, and it is forcing UK defenders into a permanent arms race. AI is now used on both sides: The balance is not hopeless, but it
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Cyber Security
AI won’t invent brand-new categories of cybercrime so much as industrialise the old ones: phishing, ransomware, fraud, intrusion and data theft — at higher volume, with better targeting, and lower skill needed to run campaigns. That’s the core message running through the UK’s own threat assessments: attackers are already using AI to enhance tactics, techniques and procedures —
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Cyber Security
The UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) has long been responsible for securing public‑sector digital systems — everything from GOV.UK to inter‑departmental data sharing. By 2025/26, it announced plans to integrate AI‑driven analytics into national cybersecurity monitoring and risk management. The ambition is to move from isolated departmental responses to a holistic national threat overview— where AI recognises emerging patterns, flagging
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The Numbers Game: When Statistics Tell Uncomfortable Truths The Morgan Stanley report revealing that Britain leads the pack in AI-driven job losses should surprise absolutely no one who’s been paying attention to how British businesses operate. An 8% net job loss – double the international average – isn’t a bug in the system, it’s a
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The Home Secretary has announced she’s throwing £140 million at some shiny new tech toys, hoping they’ll magically fix what she’s calling Britain’s “broken” policing system – because apparently the solution to everything these days is more surveillance and fewer actual police on the beat. Shabana Mahmood reckons her AI gadgets will free up six
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Hackers on the dark web are talking about artificial intelligence and whether AI will replace humans or not, not just marvelling at the tech anymore but seeing it as a tool to make easy money. AI cybercrime is proving that you don’t need deep skills, technical knowledge, or years of experience to be a cyber
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Cyber Tech
Google says it’s introducing a new feature called ‘AI Inbox,’ using Gemini which summarises all your emails, but promises it won’t train its models on your emails. Google argues that email has changed since 2004, as users are now receive hundreds of emails every week, and the numbers keeps rising. With AI Overviews in Gmail,
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