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Cloud’s Escalating Security Challenges
The article explores how rapid cloud adoption has expanded attack surfaces and created complex security challenges for organisations. It highlights the evolution from early pandemic-driven cloud uptake to highly interconnected, multi-cloud environments facing sophisticated, targeted threats. Attackers increasingly exploit cloud services such as Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, and Jupyter, using tactics that include cryptomining, credential theft, and automated spamming. The article emphasises the need for automated, scalable forensics and deeper data collection across cloud environments.
The European Union’s Plan for Cybersecurity in Space
This legal feature examines the EU’s proposed regulatory framework for cybersecurity in space operations, treating space as an extension of terrestrial technology environments. The proposal aims to unify standards, establish fair markets, and anticipate future risks as commercial space activity expands. The article explains the distinction between risk management and cybersecurity, outlines lifecycle risk requirements, and discusses controls for access rights, monitoring, logging, and authenticity.
NIS2 The History and Application of the NIS/NIS2 Regulations
This feature traces the evolution of operational technology (OT) cyber from early engineering systems to today’s regulatory environment. It describes how engineers, IT teams, and organisations struggled to communicate, secure systems, and manage risk as cyber threats increased. The article frames NIS and NIS2 as a response to ongoing failures in governance, skills shortages, and lack of preparedness, arguing that regulation became necessary to drive industry-wide improvements.
Project SINT - The Synthesis of HUMINT & OSINT in Combating Digital Financial Fraud
This article presents H2INT, a hybrid intelligence methodology combining human intelligence (HUMINT) and open-source intelligence (OSINT) to investigate and dismantle complex digital financial fraud networks. It argues that human analysts, paired with digital tools, can synchronise collection, analysis, and field operations, improving the targeting of organised cybercrime. The method emphasises adaptive intelligence, contextual behavioural understanding, and real-time collaborative processes.
Standards in the Digital Forensics Discipline
The article examines how standardisation strengthens digital forensics by increasing reliability, repeatability, and courtroom credibility. It traces the development of standards, discusses the role of key organisations, and highlights the difficulties of achieving interoperability across jurisdictions and disciplines. Scientific rigour and consistent processes are presented as necessary foundations for trustworthy digital evidence.
Fraudulent Website Takedown
This feature outlines a global, multi-phase process for identifying, preserving evidence of, and removing fraudulent websites. It emphasises legal compliance, jurisdictional complexities, and coordinated escalation from hosting providers to law enforcement. The process is designed to protect victims, maintain chain of evidence, and remediate threats without jeopardising investigations.
Briefing Papers
An Analysis of The Planned National Digital Identity Scheme (UK)
The UK’s proposed national digital ID scheme represents a major shift in identity assurance, with significant implications for security, privacy, digital inclusion and investigative practice. Costed at £1.8bn, the system will integrate with GOV.UK One Login and Wallet, offering stronger identity verification while introducing new risks, legal complexities and cybersecurity challenges requiring careful governance and oversight.
Continue ReadingCyber Security and Resilience Bill: Beyond Cyber
The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill modernises the UK’s NIS framework but remains heavily cyber-centric. This briefing argues that true national resilience depends on recognising data centres, utilities, ports and other CNI as cyber-physical systems. Protecting the digital built environment—power, cooling, OT, building services and engineering systems—is essential, with RSES offering a key competence pathway.
Continue ReadingCyber Security and Resilience Bill: A Comprehensive Review of the UK’s Next-Generation Cyber Law
The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill modernises the UK’s NIS framework, expanding obligations across essential services, cloud platforms, MSPs and critical suppliers. This briefing explores the Bill’s scope, enforcement powers, industry pushback, and its implications for regulators, government, consumers, and the DFIR community—highlighting how the legislation could reshape national cyber-resilience for years ahead.
Continue ReadingIndependent Research on the Economic Impact of Cyber Attacks on the UK
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) commissioned new research quantifying the true cost of cyber attacks on the UK economy. This DFM briefing analyses findings across business, consumer, and infrastructure impacts—revealing how cyber incidents now represent a measurable drag on national productivity, competitiveness, and long-term economic resilience.
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NEWS ROUNDUP – 3rd December 2025
Ransomware-hit fintechs, leaked university staff records and a massive Coupang customer data exposure headline this 48-hour DFM roundup. Investigators crack camera-hacking and “digital arrest” scams, while Akira and other gangs push fresh victims onto leak sites. Meanwhile governments tighten ransomware and CRA policy, and insecure consumer apps spill highly sensitive personal data worldwide, raising pressure on boards, regulators and responders.
Continue ReadingNEWS ROUNDUP – 1st December 2025
In this 48-hour roundup we track insider-driven mega breaches, disrupted court and logistics systems, and fresh leaks from healthcare and consumer apps. New OT and backend vulnerabilities join the KEV list, while Europol’s Cryptomixer takedown and UK ransomware-reporting plans show growing pressure on the criminal business model and on unprepared boards, demanding faster, evidence-led response and genuinely risk-based cyber governance.
Continue ReadingNEWS ROUNDUP – 28th November 2025
A global surge in third-party breaches, emergency-service outages, and supply-chain malware defined this 48-hour cycle. OpenAI’s Mixpanel incident, Asahi’s major data leak, and widespread disruptions at London councils and CodeRED highlight escalating systemic risk. New exploits, regulatory actions, and ISO-27001 advances reinforce the need for evidence-ready DFIR processes, developer-pipeline security, and stronger vendor oversight.
Continue ReadingNEWS ROUNDUP – 26th November 2025
The latest 48 hours saw coordinated attacks on London councils, a breach at Harvard, and ransomware disrupting US emergency alerts. Industrial firm Balkrishna Paper Mills and major banking vendor SitusAMC also reported compromises. Active exploitation of a FortiWeb zero-day, a revived npm worm campaign, and a huge Android fiction-app data leak round out a high-impact period.
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UK Acts on Weak Link in Modern Infrastructure
The UK is strengthening national resilience by overhauling its Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) infrastructure—vital for transport, energy, finance and digital services. With rising threats from GNSS jamming, spoofing and electronic warfare, the UK is shifting to a layered, secure PNT architecture to protect critical systems and ensure continuity across the modern digital economy.
Continue ReadingWhen AI Becomes the Hacker
The first fully autonomous AI-driven cyber-espionage campaign marks a turning point in national-level cyber operations. Anthropic’s investigation into the state-aligned GTG-1002 group reveals how AI executed up to 90% of the intrusion lifecycle—reconnaissance, exploitation, lateral movement, and data theft—at machine speed. DFIR teams now face a new era of AI-orchestrated, high-velocity attacks.
Continue ReadingUK Appoints Its First Fraud Minister
The UK’s first Fraud Minister marks a decisive shift in tackling the nation’s fastest-growing crime. With rising digital scams, cross-border criminal networks, and fragmented data sharing, Lord Hanson’s three-year strategy aims to realign incentives, strengthen real-time intelligence, and restore the UK’s leadership in fraud prevention. Success now depends on rapid coordination across banks, telecoms, social platforms and law enforcement.
Continue ReadingAn Evaluation of the UK’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Legislative Framework
The UK’s cybersecurity and privacy laws have expanded rapidly in response to rising digital threats, yet questions remain about their real-world impact. This analysis evaluates the effectiveness, enforcement, and complexity of the UK’s legislative framework, drawing on insights from the WCIT Security Panel and national evidence to assess whether current laws genuinely strengthen resilience across sectors.
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