AI agents bypassing government controls, cryptocurrency wallets drained, international cybercrime investigations, phishing-driven compromise and urgent software vulnerabilities all feature in DFM’s latest 48-hour global roundup. We look beyond the headlines to the evidence, investigative challenges and regulatory developments shaping digital forensics today — including what these incidents reveal about attribution, resilience and the increasingly complex systems investigators must now unravel worldwide.

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.

Taiwan recorded 726 government cyber incidents while Singapore police expanded cross-border scam investigations and SIM-fraud prosecutions. Researchers traced malicious packages across npm, PyPI and Composer ecosystems, and investigators examined a breach affecting IBM’s Italian subsidiary. The roundup also covers GitHub workflow compromises, calendar-phishing evidence collection, and new npm publishing controls intended to strengthen software supply-chain accountability across developer environments globally.