October 2025
Key cyber trends straight from the desk of Cyber Intelligence
- Cyber extortion incidents are causing major operational disruption not just data loss: In the last month, cyber extortion attacks have seen flights grounded at five major European airports, crippled manufacturing at Jaguar Land Rover UK, and halted production of Japan’s flagship beer Asahi.
- So what? Organisations should test business continuity and incident response plans against disruption scenarios – including those caused by third party service providers.
- SaaS integration and supply chain risk: Last month, a string of data breaches and disruption attacks were caused by software vendor incidents, including the ransomware attack on aviation sector software and an extortion incident at a Swedish software company.
- So what? Organisations should conduct due diligence before onboarding SaaS applications, and adopt continuous monitoring and a least privilege approach to third-party integrations.
- Botnets shift from brute force DDoS vector to advanced exploitation capabilities, with nation-state actors like China using botnets to obfuscate intrusions and gain persistent access for espionage and even future sabotage.
- So what? Organisations should continue to uplift DDoS mitigation, but also should secure vulnerable IoT devices to reduce the chance that their devices are exploited and conscripted into a botnet.
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