Between October 2024 and October 2025, nearly 12,000 incidents of fraud and cybercrime were reported in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology issued new encryption standards in 2022 that are expressly designed to withstand quantum computing attacks.

With overall global identity fraud rate stabilizing, high-quality attacks increased by 180% over 2024-2025 A newer risk is the emergence of AI fraud agents, autonomous, self-learning systems capable ...