By Vanguard Investigations Team – December 2025 STOKE-ON-TRENT, UK — Digital Forensics Magazine recently detailed how APT31, a Chinese state-backed advanced persistent threat (APT), weaponized a zero-day vulnerability in Oracle’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) suite. The technical breakdown showed privilege escalation, credential harvesting, and stealth persistence. But the deeper story is geopolitical: this wasn’t just espionage. It was digital colonialism—an intrusion that transforms corporate infrastructure into a proxy for state power.

By Vanguard Investigations Team – December 2025 STOKE-ON-TRENT, UK — Digital Forensics Magazine recently revealed a series of breaches targeting airlines and their vendor networks, exposing financial systems and passenger data. While headlines focused on stolen credit cards and disrupted bookings, the deeper story is about trust. Travel systems—airlines, ticketing platforms, vendor chains—are not just commercial services. They are the arteries of global mobility.

By Vanguard Investigations Team – December 2025 London, UK — When Digital Forensics Magazine revealed insider leaks and scraping of WhatsApp data, the headlines focused on scale: millions of accounts exposed, phone numbers harvested, metadata siphoned. But beneath the technical breach lies a deeper reality—personal data is being commodified. In underground economies, scraped WhatsApp profiles aren’t just stolen information. They’re currency, traded and repurposed to fuel fraud, surveillance, and influence campaigns.

By Vanguard Investigations Team – November 2025 LONDON, UK — When the Qilin ransomware group struck a European healthcare provider earlier this year, the attack encrypted thousands of patient records and disrupted critical services. Forensic investigators faced a challenge: logs were incomplete, servers wiped, and intrusion trails fragmented. Yet through painstaking reconstruction, analysts pieced together the attack chain—revealing not just how Qilin breached the system, but how systemic failures allowed the infection to metastasize.

Written by Vanguard investigation team Published November 2025 On November 19, 2025, Russian missiles struck two apartment blocks in Ternopil, Ukraine, killing at least 25 civilians and injuring more than 80. Among the dead were children, families, and elderly residents who had sought refuge in what they believed was a safe corner of western Ukraine. The attack, one of the deadliest in the region since the war began, has left not only physical devastation but also a profound rupture in the city’s collective identity.