Get the Alerts, Not the Aftermath: Why Contributing Members Stay One Step Ahead

Police CyberAlarm (PCA) is an award-winning tool helping UK organisations detect and defend against malicious cyber activity. To fully benefit from its capabilities, it’s essential to be a contributing member, which requires you to have a PCA data collector actively installed and feeding in data.

Contributing members are part of a proactive, intelligence-driven network. By installing a PCA collector, these organisations receive:

• Timely insight into active cyber threats targeting their digital infrastructure
• Monthly vulnerability scans to identify and remediate weaknesses.
• Detailed reports on cyber threats that may otherwise go undetected.

In late 2024, the pro-Russian hacking group NoName057(16) launched coordinated cyber attacks against UK councils, reflecting wider geopolitical tensions. Police CyberAlarm detected these activities in their early stages and provided contributing members with crucial intelligence, allowing them to take action before the threats escalated. This proactive detection demonstrated PCA’s strength in delivering timely intelligence and support, well before most were even aware of the risk.

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In another demonstration of PCA’s critical value, contributing members were recently alerted to a global cyber threat involving compromised ASUS routers. A stealthy backdoor campaign which was identified by GreyNoise Intelligence and was found to be exploiting these devices worldwide. The Police CyberAlarm team cross-referenced indicators of compromise (IOCs) from GreyNoise with live data from Data Collectors, allowing them to identify and notify affected organisations in real time. Contributing members received actionable alerts, including recommended mitigation steps to protect against this advanced threat.

GreyNoise Discovers Stealthy Backdoor Campaign Affecting Thousands of ASUS Routers

The cyber threat landscape continues to evolve rapidly and shows no signs of slowing down. Police CyberAlarm provides UK organisations with the ability to stay ahead of these threats, but only if you take the step to become a contributing member. If your organisation does not have a PCA collector installed, you did not receive these alerts, no threat intelligence and no mitigation steps.

If you're ready to enhance your organisation’s ability to respond to cyber threats and want to receive alerts to help better protect your organisation: Install a Police CyberAlarm collector today or if you need help getting started, contact our support team at support@cyberalarm.police.uk