The past 48 hours saw major activity across DFIR, investigations and global threat intelligence, with ransomware playbooks, supply-chain breaches and identity-system zero-days dominating the landscape. Law-enforcement operations intensified across Asia, while G7 nations advanced cyber-policy coordination. Key updates highlight the growing convergence of identity, vendor ecosystems and human factors as critical security priorities.

A turbulent 48 hours saw fresh SaaS supply-chain breaches, a ransomware hit on an LG battery subsidiary, and renewed scrutiny of backup resilience and offline records. Law enforcement ran large-scale fraud crackdowns across India and arrested a Russian hacking suspect in Thailand, while new UK and US policy moves tightened expectations on incident reporting, sanctions and third-party risk.

The past 48–72 hours saw major updates across global cyber operations, including Cloudflare’s root-cause analysis of its worldwide outage, resurging exploits against Cisco IOS XE and Ivanti EPMM, and active Chrome zero-day attacks. Law enforcement advanced ransomware-laundering investigations, while Japan and the EU issued new cyber-strategy and election-security guidance.

Global DFIR teams face cascading fallout from an Oracle EBS zero-day campaign, SaaS and VPN breaches, and side-channel attacks on AI models. UK resilience legislation, sanctions Amber Alerts and NIST’s CSF 2.0 profile reshape compliance expectations. Law enforcement pushes back on crypto fraud and DPRK IT-worker schemes, while police expand digital forensics capacity, demanding sharper playbooks and faster incident reporting.

Healthcare, media and critical infrastructure all feature in this 48-hour DFIR snapshot. From Synnovis and Washington Post breach fallout to Akira’s evolving ransomware playbook, defenders face expanding pressure across on-prem and cloud estates. Operation Endgame arrests, new UK cyber resilience powers and fresh NIST mappings underline how law enforcement and regulation are reshaping incident response expectations for global teams worldwide.