Report: Record rise in cyber-attacks on UK
October 14, 2025

According to the NCSC’s latest annual review, the UK is facing an unprecedented rise in cyber threats. The organisation handled 204 nationally significant attacks in the past year, up from 89 in the previous 12 months. Of a total of 429 incidents handled, 18 were categorised as ‘highly significant’, meaning that they had the potential to have a serious impact on essential services. This marks an almost 50 per cent increase on incidents of this second-highest level categorisation compared with the previous year and an increase for the third year running.
As the NCSC warns that cyber security has become a matter of national resilience, Toby Gasston, Principal Product Manager at Wireless Logic, has made the following comments in response:
“The UK being under near-constant cyber-attack comes as no surprise. As industries digitise, their most critical functions increasingly depend on connected devices and IoT infrastructure. This growing reliance expands the threat surface and demands a new level of vigilance, along with recognition that it brings vulnerabilities which can no longer be ignored.”
“From energy and healthcare to retail and manufacturing, connected devices now form the backbone of daily operations. They control heating and power, monitor patients and optimise production lines. Yet many still sit outside traditional IT perimeters, creating blind spots where attackers can move unseen. With thousands or even millions of endpoints across supply chains, the challenge isn’t securing a single device but the entire network that connects them. The government is right to call for board-level focus – cyber resilience has become a strategic imperative.”
“The way we think about IoT security must evolve from piecemeal protection to built-in resilience. Secure-by-design connectivity, supported by strong authentication, anomaly detection and continuous visibility, ensures every device on a network is identifiable and protected from compromise. It’s the only sustainable way to safeguard the UK’s connected economy against the kind of large-scale disruption the NCSC is warning about,” he concluded.
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