The recent ransomware attacks on organizations with SonicWall SSL VPNs may teach more lessons than just the need for patch management and identity and access control. Some of the victim…
As AI-assisted due diligence becomes embedded in law firm work, a sharper question emerges: what happens when the system misses something material? The post AI and due diligence: the SRA’s…
Researchers have demonstrated another indirect prompt injection attack against AI-powered browsers and browser assistants that could lead to phishing, sensitive data exfiltration, credential theft, or malware downloads. The attack, dubbed…
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…
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 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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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
It’s the law of unintended consequences: equipping browsers with agentic AI opens the door to an exponential volume of prompt injections. – Read More
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