Illinois House Bill 5521, the Biometric Surveillance Act introduced by Rep Kelly Cassidy, would prohibit state and local law enforcement from using facial recognition technology and other biometric identifiers including fingerprints, voice prints and iris scans. Republican legislator and serving …
The Digital Forensics Magazine 20 March round-up covers a Russia-linked iPhone exploit campaign against Ukrainian users using the DarkSword framework, the Interlock ransomware group exploiting a maximum-severity Cisco Secure Firewall zero-day, and CISA urging hardening of Microsoft Intune endpoints following …
US Department of Justice and Europol announced the dismantlement of LeakBase during Operation Leak on 3–4 March 2026. The forum had over 142,000 registered members and specialised in trading stealer logs, hacked databases and hundreds of millions of stolen credentials.
Forensic Focus weekly digest covers: academic research on anti-forensic mobile apps showing Samsung Secure Folder and Snapchat My Eyes Only leave varying recoverable artefacts in Magnet Axiom; INTERPOL’s Global Complex for Innovation in Singapore developing capacity in digital forensics, drone …
A coordinated action by Europol, Eurojust and agencies from Austria, France, the Netherlands and the United States on 11 March 2026 took down the SocksEscort malicious proxy service, which had compromised over 369,000 routers and IoT devices in 163 countries. …
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office fined Police Scotland £66,000 and issued a formal reprimand after finding the force extracted the entire contents of a crime victim’s mobile phone when only text messages were needed, then unlawfully disclosed the highly sensitive …
The Forensic Focus weekly round-up covers: academic research revealing varying artifact recoverability from mobile anti-forensic apps including Snapchat My Eyes Only and Samsung Secure Folder; INTERPOL’s Global Complex for Innovation focusing on digital forensics, drones and AI-driven synthetic media; a …
The European Commission Roadmap on Access to Data for Law Enforcement sets specific 2026 milestones: a Commission-Europol gap and needs analysis for digital forensics tools and solutions; Europol developing as a centre of excellence for digital forensics operational expertise; and …
A joint analysis by Kennedys Law and digital forensics firm S-RM examines how AI-detection tools that output probability scores (such as ‘86% likelihood of deepfake’) create legal admissibility challenges because courts require explainable, repeatable methodology. The authors argue that forensic …
The 6 March roundup covers a Europol operation on 5 March dismantling a transnational organised crime network traced from two phones seized in Sweden, an iOS exploit kit (‘Coruna’) containing 23 exploits now migrating from state-linked actors to broader criminal …
Illinois House Bill 5521, the Biometric Surveillance Act introduced by Rep Kelly Cassidy, would prohibit state and local law enforcement from using facial recognition technology and other biometric identifiers including fingerprints, voice prints and iris scans. Republican legislator and serving …
The Digital Forensics Magazine 20 March round-up covers a Russia-linked iPhone exploit campaign against Ukrainian users using the DarkSword framework, the Interlock ransomware group exploiting a maximum-severity Cisco Secure Firewall zero-day, and CISA urging hardening of Microsoft Intune endpoints following …
US Department of Justice and Europol announced the dismantlement of LeakBase during Operation Leak on 3–4 March 2026. The forum had over 142,000 registered members and specialised in trading stealer logs, hacked databases and hundreds of millions of stolen credentials. …
Forensic Focus weekly digest covers: academic research on anti-forensic mobile apps showing Samsung Secure Folder and Snapchat My Eyes Only leave varying recoverable artefacts in Magnet Axiom; INTERPOL’s Global Complex for Innovation in Singapore developing capacity in digital forensics, drone …
A coordinated action by Europol, Eurojust and agencies from Austria, France, the Netherlands and the United States on 11 March 2026 took down the SocksEscort malicious proxy service, which had compromised over 369,000 routers and IoT devices in 163 countries. …
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office fined Police Scotland £66,000 and issued a formal reprimand after finding the force extracted the entire contents of a crime victim’s mobile phone when only text messages were needed, then unlawfully disclosed the highly sensitive …
The Forensic Focus weekly round-up covers: academic research revealing varying artifact recoverability from mobile anti-forensic apps including Snapchat My Eyes Only and Samsung Secure Folder; INTERPOL’s Global Complex for Innovation focusing on digital forensics, drones and AI-driven synthetic media; a …
The European Commission Roadmap on Access to Data for Law Enforcement sets specific 2026 milestones: a Commission-Europol gap and needs analysis for digital forensics tools and solutions; Europol developing as a centre of excellence for digital forensics operational expertise; and …
A joint analysis by Kennedys Law and digital forensics firm S-RM examines how AI-detection tools that output probability scores (such as ‘86% likelihood of deepfake’) create legal admissibility challenges because courts require explainable, repeatable methodology. The authors argue that forensic …
The 6 March roundup covers a Europol operation on 5 March dismantling a transnational organised crime network traced from two phones seized in Sweden, an iOS exploit kit (‘Coruna’) containing 23 exploits now migrating from state-linked actors to broader criminal …