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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
The UK Government Cyber Action Plan (2026): A Structural Reset for Cyber Governance — Credibility, Deliverability, and the Risks That Remain
The UK Government Cyber Action Plan (2026) marks a decisive shift from advisory cyber policy to enforceable, cross-government governance. It introduces a central risk “spine” within DSIT, clarifies accountability for departments and suppliers, and reframes outages and attacks as equivalent resilience failures. This briefing assesses credibility, deliverability, skills and industry reliance, legislative dependencies, and the unanswered questions that will determine success.
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.
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.
Quantum 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.
Latest News
NEWS ROUNDUP – 28th January 2026
This cycle reinforces that routine security work, standards updates, browser fixes in flight, and edge-device advisories, directly shapes investigation quality and response speed when exploitation pressure rises. High-trust automation platforms and perimeter systems remain prime targets, so teams should prioritise patch validation, token rotation, and log preservation to contain blast radius and defend decisions under regulatory and customer scrutiny forensics-ready incident narratives.
NEWS ROUNDUP – 26th January 2026
Microsoft issued out-of-band Windows fixes for Outlook freezes and probed post-update boot failures as investigators tracked Cambodia-based scam networks repatriated to South Korea. ESET tied Sandworm to a DynoWiper power-sector attempt, while Fortinet and CISA warned on FortiCloud SSO abuse and exploited vCenter flaws. Policy moves spanned NHS supplier assurance, Australian smart-device rules, and Korean breach scrutiny in this window.
NEWS ROUNDUP – 23rd January 2026
Cisco patched a Unified Communications RCE (CVE-2026-20045) amid active exploitation, while CSA Singapore urged urgent updates. CISA issued a batch of ICS advisories for OT operators. Investigators tracked the Telegram-linked Tudou Guarantee marketplace and authorities tied suspects to Black Basta. Policy moved on Ireland’s spyware law, EU high-risk vendor phase-out, and UK NIS Bill progress. Chainlit flaws threatened cloud apps.
NEWS ROUNDUP – 21st January 2026
Over the past 48 hours, responders tracked UK warnings on Russia-aligned DDoS activity, Ingram Micro’s disclosure affecting 42,000 people, and a brief hijack of Iranian state television feeds. Investigations detailed LinkedIn-delivered malware and Gemini prompt injection, while policymakers advanced EU cybersecurity reforms, new UK fraud reporting, and Singapore issued fresh vulnerability advisories impacting cloud deployments, broadcast resilience, and response planning.
Latest Blog Articles
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.
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.
When 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.
UK 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.
