Cyber Attacks

If you strip away the sales fluff, the companies doing the heaviest lifting for English businesses and English people fall into three buckets: the big platform firms people already use every day, the network and infrastructure defenders that keep services online, and the specialist cyber-security firms that detect, hunt and respond to attacks for organisations that cannot […]

First: “calculating the chances” is not like doing your VAT return There is no public dataset that lets anyone honestly compute a single probability for “Russia/China will succeed against the UK government or UK businesses”, because: So the only responsible way to answer is a scenario-based risk estimate grounded in UK Government/NCSC published assessments and the UK’s own National Risk

Yes. They’re a favourite target because they’re easier to shake down. The UK Government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025 found 43% of UK businesses identified a cyber security breach or attack in the previous 12 months. For micro and small businesses, phishing is still the main problem: 35% of micro businesses and 42% of small businesses identified phishing attacks (both down year-on-year, but still very

Major cyber incidents that crippled Marks & Spencer (M&S) and Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) last year have jolted British boardrooms into recognising the true cost of digital threats. Yet, despite heightened awareness, many UK firms remain dangerously exposed, according to new research from Vodafone Business. Growing Concern Among Business Leaders The telecoms group surveyed 1,000 senior executives from organisations of all sizes