“Why are law firms giving away stakes in their businesses?” – Legal Futures
While it is not surprising that private equity is interested in investing in law firms, the real question is why law firms are giving away stakes in their businesses, a…
2025
Consolidation laid bare as number of law firms falls below 9,000 – Legal Futures
The number of law firms in England and Wales has dipped below 9,000 for the first time in recent memory after dropping by nearly 2,000 over the past 15 years.…
Solicitors asked to vote on Law Society reform it no longer wants – Legal Futures
Solicitors yesterday received an invitation to vote on whether to increase the threshold for calling an SGM of the Law Society – a move it no longer supports. The post…
Senior associates are “biggest flight risk” for law firms – Legal Futures
Senior associates are the unhappiest cohort of fee-earners at UK law firms and represent the biggest “flight risk”, according to research. The post Senior associates are “biggest flight risk” for…
Budget: No LLP tax and apprenticeship funding boost – Legal Futures
No mention of a new tax on LLPs and making apprenticeship training free for under-25s in SMEs were the good news for lawyers in yesterday’s Budget. The post Budget: No…
Shai-Hulud v2 Campaign Spreads From npm to Maven, Exposing Thousands of Secrets – The Hacker News
The second wave of the Shai-Hulud supply chain attack has spilled over to the Maven ecosystem after compromising more than 830 packages in the npm registry. The Socket Research Team…
Meet Rey, the Admin of ‘Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters’ – Krebs on Security
A prolific cybercriminal group that calls itself “Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters” has dominated headlines this year by regularly stealing data from and publicly mass extorting dozens of major corporations. But the…
Digital Fraud at Industrial Scale: 2025 Wasn’t Great – Dark Reading
Advanced fraud attacks surged 180% in 2025 as cyber-scammers used generative AI to churn out flawless IDs, deepfakes, and autonomous bots at levels never before seen. – Read More
Budget reaction: “Salami sliced Budget now paves the way for stability” – Legal Futures
Andrew Lloyd, Managing Director at Search Acumen (property data insight and technology provider), comments on the Autumn Budget. The post Budget reaction: “Salami sliced Budget now paves the way for…
‘Dark LLMs’ Aid Petty Criminals, But Underwhelm Technically – Dark Reading
As in the wider world, AI is not quite living up to the hype in the cyber underground. But it’s definitely helping low-level cybercriminals do competent work. – Read More
Prompt Injections Loom Large Over ChatGPT’s Atlas Browser – Dark Reading
It’s the law of unintended consequences: equipping browsers with agentic AI opens the door to an exponential volume of prompt injections. – Read More
How Malware Authors Are Incorporating LLMs to Evade Detection – Dark Reading
Cyberattackers are integrating large language models (LLMs) into the malware, running prompts at runtime to evade detection and augment their code on demand. – Read More
Enterprises Aren’t Confident They Can Secure Non-Human Identities (NHIs) – Dark Reading
More than half of organizations surveyed aren’t sure they can secure non-human identities (NHIs), underscoring the lag between the rollout of these identities and the tools to protect them. –…
Qilin Ransomware Turns South Korean MSP Breach Into 28-Victim ‘Korean Leaks’ Data Heist – The Hacker News
South Korea’s financial sector has been targeted by what has been described as a sophisticated supply chain attack that led to the deployment of Qilin ransomware. “This operation combined the…
Neue ClickFix-Kampagne nutzt Fake-Windows-Updates – CSO Online
Cyberkriminelle nutzen eine gefälschte Windows-Update-Seite, um Mitarbeiter anzugreifen. PixieMe / Shutterstock Forscher des Security-Anbieters Huntress sind kürzlich auf eine neue ClickFix-Kampagne gestoßen, die auf Mitarbeiter in Unternehmen zielt. Laut Forschungsbericht…