A major cyberattack on the NHS Wirral University Teaching Hospital in northwest England resulted in the cancellation of outpatient appointments. While patient records were inaccessible, maternity services, neonatal, and the emergency triage were unaffected. The incident is the latest cybersecurity threat faced by the UK healthcare sector. Measures are being taken to increase resilience and data backup to enable a swift recovery in the event of an attack.

Mandiant warns of attacks on newly-disclosed Ivanti remote takeover threat
Google’s Mandiant team has issued an alert about a remote code execution flaw in the Ivanti Connect Secure VPN platform. The vulnerability, designated CVE-2025-22457, is