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On 28 October 2025, China passed amendments to the Cybersecurity Law, marking the first update since its enactment in 2016. These amendments reflect China’s heightened focus on cybersecurity and AI governance and are scheduled to take effect on 1 January 2026.

Key Updates

The amendments primarily focus on the law’s enforcement provisions. Key updates include:

The Threat

Malware usage by adversaries has reportedly declined. Partly due to sophisticated detection methods commonly deployed by medium to large organisations.

Conversely, insider threats (cybersecurity risks originating from within an organisation) are increasing, posing complex and costly challenges for businesses. CrowdStrike’s 2025 Global Threat Report indicates that insider threat operations accounted for 40% of

Visible cyber fallout is everywhere. Impact to business operations (and therefore revenue) including halted production lines, emptied supermarket shelves, online payment unavailability, and patient backlogs have all brought cyber into the media and the boardroom at an alarming rate in the last year. Last week, the NCSC’s Annual Review 2025[1] showed impact climbing fast

Summary

The Upper Tribunal (UT) has handed down its judgment in the UK Information Commissioner’s (Information Commissioner) appeal against the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) decision on Clearview AI Inc (Clearview). The UT upheld three of the Commissioner’s four grounds of appeal, concluding that:

  • Clearview’s processing of personal information is related to monitoring of behaviour of UK

What is data scraping?

Data scraping is an automated process through which computer programs extract vast amounts of data from the internet at a faster rate than manual data collection methods.

Some businesses scrape data for internal purposes, such as generating leads, or to create products and services available for public use, such as price

CrowdStrike’s 2025 Threat Hunting Report offers key insights into the current cyber threat landscape. Drawing on data from July 2024 to June 2025, the report showcases how adversaries are becoming more sophisticated, scalable, and business-like in their operations. These “enterprising adversaries” are not only innovating their tactics but also exploiting emerging technologies such as generative

The Spanish Data Protection Authority (“AEPD”) has published its 2024 annual report, which includes the AEPD’s awareness-raising activities; the collaboration and inspection activities of the Spanish authorities; relevant reports and procedures published during 2024; and an analysis of regulatory trends and key privacy challenges for the coming months. The annual report’s key elements are summarised