Richard Horne's annual report warning points at unpatched, long-tolerated vulnerabilities rather than novel AI attacks, and sets out a £70 million vulnerability centre and £60 million for Cyber Shield.
Check Point Research says the Brotli decompression bug, first tied to Node.js, may also reach Python packages, .NET and proxies, and that scanning and exploitation attempts are already showing up.
Cisco Talos describes a Windows infostealer that adds model-driven analysis to stolen credentials, sessions and other information collected from a victim.
CrowdStrike attributes a campaign across 14 countries to a China-nexus group that ran an open-source multi-agent penetration-testing framework, with at least nine organisations compromised.
Talos says attackers used a critical Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN flaw, fixed in February, to plant custom malware that copies site-to-site encryption keys. The vendor calls the attacks historical but gives no timeline.
Researchers say UAT-11473 used an authentication-bypass flaw Cisco patched in February 2026 to plant a framework that intercepts control-plane traffic and lifts keying material.
Talos says UAT-11473 used a critical Cisco SD-WAN flaw to plant the KeyDrift framework on controllers. Lumen's Black Lotus Labs published research the same day on the Silent Train network.