Security consultant Martin Riley has warned that criminal gangs with alleged support from Russian, Iran and North Korea, could attack UK’s critical national infrastructure. Possible targets highlighted by Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden include public finances, transport systems, health services and central government. Currently, these sectors are allegedly poorly equipped to handle these cyber attacks. The report calls for the Cabinet Office to be given the responsibility for handling ransomware attacks.

OpenAI GPT-5.2-Codex Supercharges Agentic Coding and Cyber Vulnerability Detection
OpenAI has unveiled GPT-5.2-Codex, a cutting-edge model optimized for agentic coding and enhanced cybersecurity tasks. The release highlights breakthroughs in handling complex software engineering and


