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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
UK 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.
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.
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NEWS ROUNDUP – 19th December 2025
In the last 48 hours, breaches and recoveries hit healthcare and retail, while investigators disrupted fraud marketplaces and laundering services. Major incidents affected oil logistics and UK government systems. Active exploitation warnings targeted React2Shell and SonicWall SMA, alongside new CISA ICS advisories. Policy and standards moved on UK cyber legislation, EU CRA reporting, and NIST’s Cyber AI profile this week.
Continue ReadingNEWS ROUNDUP – 17th December 2025
DFM’s latest 48-hour roundup covers ransomware recovery updates, major platform breaches, and active exploitation alerts, alongside fraud investigations and law enforcement crackdowns. Policy signals include UK resilience legislation progress and rising phishing of public officials, while NIST advances AI-era security profiles. The edition also tracks consumer app exposure risks and third-party telemetry weaknesses shaping incident response.
Continue ReadingNEWS ROUNDUP – 15th December 2025
In the past 48 hours, responders tracked macOS infostealer lures and a ransomware decryptor weakness, while regulators opened probes into UK mobile outages and Seoul investigators intensified action over Coupang. Major breach disclosures include 700Credit impacts, alongside React2Shell/KEV patch pressure. Enforcement operations targeted SIM and laundering networks. Consumer risks rose from exposed AI imagery, fiction-app records leaks, and fake apps.
Continue ReadingNEWS ROUNDUP – 12th December 2025
This 48-hour DFM roundup tracks global cyber risk across DFIR, investigations, major incidents, exploitation and governance. Highlights include government email compromise, large-scale consumer breach fallout, OT and Windows patch triage, and enforcement actions disrupting hostile infrastructure. The meta theme is evidence readiness: deception telemetry, standardized baselines, supplier controls and rapid remediation are now inseparable from incident response and regulatory defensibility for teams.
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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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