Russian missile and drone barrage kills at least 12 in Kyiv, hits rail workers
A Russian drone and missile barrage struck Kyiv overnight, killing at least twelve people and directly hitting rail workers. It continues a shift towards targeting transport and logistics infrastructure rather than purely military assets. Rail corridors have become more important as air travel and Black Sea shipping remain constrained, and they are now an explicit target. If you have staff, contractors or supply chains touching Ukraine or its neighbours, that affects evacuation planning, freight continuity and staff safety near stations and marshalling yards. The attack also confirms that the conflict will keep driving regional instability into the autumn, with no sign of de-escalation. Firms operating in or transiting the region should reassess their duty of care for anyone using Ukrainian rail links. Keep threat intelligence on strike patterns near transport nodes up to date, and build redundancy into any logistics route that depends on a single corridor. Diplomatic and embassy-linked operations in the region should also review their protective arrangements, given the pattern of attacks on infrastructure.
Mission Support's Advisory & Intelligence service tracks strike patterns and risk along transport corridors, so clients can keep staff and operations out of harm's way.
UK households face 'risk premium' on energy as US-Israel war on Iran intensifies
Reports indicate that British consumers are now paying a 'risk premium' on energy as the US-Israel military campaign against Iran continues. Markets are pricing in possible disruption to Gulf oil and gas flows. Even without a direct interdiction of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a sustained conflict raises insurance and freight costs. Those costs feed into end-user energy prices across Europe, and the UK is not the only market affected. For corporate security and risk teams, Middle East escalation now has a measurable, ongoing balance-sheet impact far beyond the region. It runs through energy procurement costs, freight insurance premiums and second-order inflation in operating costs. If your energy exposure is material, as in manufacturing, logistics, hospitality or data centres, stress-test budgets against continued or rising premiums. Review force-majeure and supply contracts for energy inputs linked to the Gulf. Keep intelligence coverage of shipping and chokepoint risk, rather than treating the conflict as a distant geopolitical story. Executive travel and asset planning in the wider Gulf region should also be reassessed while the tension lasts.
Our Advisory & Intelligence analysts monitor Gulf energy and shipping risk, so clients see cost and continuity effects coming before they reach the balance sheet.
Infostealer campaigns target Anthropic users, hijacking active sessions
Security researchers report that infostealer malware campaigns are harvesting credentials and, more seriously, hijacking active session tokens of people using Anthropic's AI services. Session theft is especially dangerous because it bypasses multi-factor authentication entirely. An attacker with a stolen session token takes over a session that is already authenticated, with no need for a password or one-time code. Enterprises are quickly widening staff access to AI platforms for coding, research and internal workflows. Those accounts hold more and more sensitive proprietary data, source code and business context, which makes them a high-value target in their own right, separate from email or SaaS credentials. Treat this as a trend, not an isolated incident. If you issue AI-tool access at scale, you need good endpoint hygiene and short session lifetimes, with re-authentication for sensitive actions. Monitor for unusual session use from new devices or locations. Extend your existing credential-theft playbooks to cover AI-platform sessions explicitly. Identity governance reviews carried out before generative AI took off often missed them.
Mission Support's Cyber Security team tightens identity and session controls around your AI tools, closing the gap that infostealers exploit.
