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Security Stop-Press: Cyber Attack Almost Wipes Out M&S Profits

Published 12 November 2025

Marks & Spencer has confirmed that a major cyber attack in April 2025 almost wiped out its half-year profits, cutting statutory profit before tax by 99 per cent, from £391.9 million to just £3.4 million. The retailer said the incident, linked to the DragonForce ransomware group and the Scattered Spider […]

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Security Stop-Press: New AI Security Researcher ‘Aardvark’

Published 7 November 2025

OpenAI has introduced Aardvark, an autonomous security agent powered by GPT-5 that scans codebases to detect and fix software vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them. Described as “an agentic security researcher,” Aardvark continuously analyses repositories, monitors commits, and tests code in sandboxed environments to validate real-world exploitability. It then proposes […]

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