This DFM 48h News Roundup covers AI-driven ransomware, browser data leakage, OAuth abuse, Mustang Panda activity, ransomware claims, SharePoint exploitation, Scattered Spider extradition, Japanese cybercrime enforcement, and policy developments from NIST and the European Parliament. The focus is digital investigations, evidential readiness, cross-platform artefacts, and the operational challenge of proving what happened.

Investigators faced a week shaped by evidence preservation and attribution challenges. The FBI highlighted cyber range training for realistic digital evidence collection, while the Justice Department resolved a search-warrant compliance case involving cloud data retention. Coverage also examined UK telecoms security policy changes, active Chrome and LiteLLM exploitation, a French government messaging compromise, and expanding scam operations globally.