St Helens Council in the UK was significantly disrupted by a ransomware cyber-attack that occurred between 17 and 21 August, resulting in data being stolen and exported to the cloud. Systems were quickly restored and the incident was contained with a recovery plan in place. The Information Commissioner’s Office confirmed they were satisfied with the outcome and will not be pursuing enforcement.

Tenable Finds DeepSeek AI Can Be Manipulated to Generate Malware
A study by cybersecurity firm Tenable shows that DeepSeek R1, a large language model, can be manipulated into creating malware, such as keyloggers and ransomware.