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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
Geopolitical Shock Events and Cyber Spillover Risk – Implications for Digital Investigations and the Wider Cyber Domain (Iran/IRGC Turbulence and U.S. Military Action in Venezuela)
This DFM Briefing examines how concurrent geopolitical shock events involving Iran, the IRGC, and U.S. military action in Venezuela reshape the cyber threat landscape. It analyses implications for digital investigations, attribution, evidence integrity, and DFIR operations, highlighting heightened cyber noise, influence operations, and the growing risk of evidence pollution in politically contested environments.
Continue ReadingUK Forensic Science Regulator – Statutory Code of Practice V2 – Digital Forensics Practitioners Briefing
This briefing examines Version 2 of the Forensic Science Regulator’s Statutory Code of Practice through the lens of the digital forensics practitioner. It explains why the Code exists, outlines key changes from Version 1, and critically analyses the requirements that directly affect digital investigations, evidential integrity, quality management, and courtroom admissibility.
Continue ReadingQuantum Cryptography, Post-Quantum Cryptography and the Future of Digital Investigation
Quantum computing is accelerating toward capabilities that could break today’s cryptographic foundations. This briefing examines quantum cryptography, post-quantum cryptography, timelines, societal impacts, and profound implications for digital investigations. It provides strategic recommendations for CISOs, investigators and policymakers navigating the transition to a quantum-resilient future.
Continue ReadingAn 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.
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NEWS ROUNDUP – 2nd January 2026
Digital Forensics Magazine’s 48-hour cybersecurity roundup tracks the latest DFIR and investigation priorities, including ransomware recovery lessons, vendor-driven airline exposure, and consumer healthcare breach updates. We cover active exploit warnings (IBM API Connect auth bypass and MongoBleed risk), law-enforcement actions against ransomware affiliates and ATM malware crews, and fast-moving APAC and EU policy and compliance deadlines shaping 2026 incident response readiness.
Continue ReadingNEWS ROUNDUP – 31st December 2025
Digital Forensics Magazine’s latest 48-hour roundup tracks active exploitation alerts, significant breach disclosures, and enforcement actions shaping DFIR priorities. Highlights include ESA’s confirmed breach investigation, supplier-linked Oracle EBS impacts affecting aviation, and renewed attention on MongoDB and legacy edge weaknesses. We also cover kernel-mode APT tradecraft, supply-chain infostealer delivery, and the growing policy pressures from insurance and governance expectations.
Continue ReadingNEWS ROUNDUP – 29th December 2025
This 48-hour DFM roundup tracks active MongoDB exploitation, service disruption fallout, and cross-border cybercrime enforcement. Key takeaways for DFIR teams include prioritizing patch-and-rotate workflows for memory-leak exposures, preserving volatile artifacts early, and validating rollback and integrity controls in live-service environments. Policy and governance themes underline the operational value of clear authority lines, evidence discipline, and rapid notification during holiday staffing periods.
Continue ReadingNEWS ROUNDUP – 26th December 2025
Digital Forensics Magazine’s 48-hour cybersecurity roundup tracks the most actionable developments across incident response, investigations, major disruptions, and emerging threats worldwide. This edition highlights ransomware and DDoS impacts, a WatchGuard Firebox zero-day under active exploitation, and supply-chain risk from compromised repositories and malicious npm packages. It also covers law-enforcement crackdowns, policy shifts affecting identity verification and privacy, plus new standards guidance for protecting tokens and assertions.
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Mobile Money
Africa’s rapid adoption of mobile money is reshaping the digital economy, expanding financial inclusion while introducing new security and compliance challenges. This article explores the role of PCI DSS in cloud environments, fintech innovation across Africa, and how artificial intelligence is transforming fraud detection, customer experience, and trust in digital payment ecosystems.
Continue ReadingUK 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.
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