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Apple broadens its Advanced Data Protection feature to more countries and adds new encrypted data categories, while maintaining its refusal to comply with UK government demands for a backdoor—leaving British users without the feature.

A Qilin ransomware attack on pathology provider Synnovis disrupted blood testing and transfusion services across major London NHS hospitals for months, forcing cancellation of thousands of operations and appointments.

Scattered Spider social-engineered a service desk password reset to breach M&S, deploying DragonForce ransomware that encrypted VMware infrastructure, halted online sales for 46 days, and caused £300 million in lost profit.