Bank Holiday round-up – Legal Cheek
The top legal affairs news stories from the long weekend Jones Day Law Firm Says Hackers Accessed Some Clients’ Data (£) Will disputes on the rise as families fight over…
April 2026
BSB rejects Good Law Project complaint over gender critical barrister – Legal Futures
The Bar Standards Board has rejected a complaint made against a barrister by the Good Law Project on behalf of a trans woman over multiple social media posts. The post…
Chambers and ex-tenant face trial over unpaid rent – Legal Futures
A dispute between a leading chambers and a barrister over £71,200 of contributions that he allegedly failed to make is set to go to trial later this month. The post…
Law Society and Bar Council back brief over Trump attack on law firms – Legal Futures
The Law Society and Bar Council are among 20 European bar associations to back an amici curiae brief supporting four US law firms in court action over executive orders issued…
Litigation funder announces huge loss after cases fail – Legal Futures
Troubled litigation funder LCM lost A$112m (£58m) in the last six months of 2025 due to two major case defeats and an adverse costs order in a third exceeding its…
Motor finance – the FCA is more worried about banks than consumers – Legal Futures
The Financial Conduct Authority’s motor finance redress scheme announced last week amounts to one of the largest ever consumer failures by the regulator. The post Motor finance – the FCA…
US personal injury firm attracts $125m private equity investment – Legal Futures
A personal injury law firm in Arizona has launched a management services organisation with a $125m (£94m) investment from an unnamed private equity backer. The post US personal injury firm…
AI-Assisted Supply Chain Attack Targets GitHub – Dark Reading
PRT-scan is the second in recent months where a threat actor appears to have leveraged AI for automated targeting of a widespread GitHub misconfiguration. – Read More
Axios Attack Shows Social Complex Engineering Is Industrialized – Dark Reading
The attack on the popular NPM package Axios is just one of many targeting maintainers and has shone a light on how threat actors can scale sophisticated social engineering campaigns.…
Fortinet Issues Emergency Patch for FortiClient Zero-Day – Dark Reading
The authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-35616, is the latest in a series of Fortinet vulnerabilities that have been exploited in the wild. – Read More
Iran-Linked Password-Spraying Campaign Targets 300+ Israeli Microsoft 365 Organizations – The Hacker News
An Iran-nexus threat actor is suspected to be behind a password-spraying campaign targeting Microsoft 365 environments in Israel and the U.A.E. amid ongoing conflict in the Middle East. The activity,…
DPRK-Linked Hackers Use GitHub as C2 in Multi-Stage Attacks Targeting South Korea – The Hacker News
Threat actors likely associated with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have been observed using GitHub as command-and-control (C2) infrastructure in multi-stage attacks targeting organizations in South Korea. The…
Automated Credential Harvesting Campaign Exploits React2Shell Flaw – Dark Reading
An emerging threat cluster tracked as UAT-10608 is exploiting vulnerable Web-exposed Next.js apps and using an automated tool to exfiltrate credentials, secrets, and other system data. – Read More
Shadow AI in Healthcare is Here to Stay – Dark Reading
Medical professionals are not going to stop using AI tools to manage growing workloads. Organizations should prioritize bolstering security protocols to limit their blast radius. – Read More
OWASP GenAI Security Project Gets Update, New Tools Matrix – Dark Reading
In recognition of 21 generative AI risks, the standards groups recommends that companies take separate but linked approaches to defending GenAI and agentic AI systems. – Read More