The British Library, one of the world’s largest document repositories, has confirmed it suffered an extensive outage due to a ransomware attack. Cyber intelligence experts claim the attack highlights the government’s lack of investment in cyber security, especially in crucial infrastructure like schools and hospitals. The hacking group Rhysida, linked with Russian connections, has claimed responsibility for the breach.

Trojanized PyPI AI Proxy Steals Claude Prompt, Exfiltrates Data
A malicious PyPI package, hermes-px, that masquerades as a “Secure AI Inference Proxy” while secretly stealing user prompts and abusing a private university AI service.


