Conflict, Stability and Security Fund annual report 2023 to 2024
The UK Government published its 2023 to 2024 annual report on the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF), a cross-government Fund, that acted as a catalyst for a more integrated government response to tackling conflict, insecurity and instability.
The section on ‘Transnational Threats: Cyber’ highlights the Shadowserver Foundation’s project work funded through the CSSF Indo-Pacific Cyber Programme – ‘Improving Threat Data for Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand’. This project improved the quality of free daily cyber threat intelligence provided to national telecoms and cyber security incident response teams. In early 2024, a significant and new malware vulnerability was identified in the region, released by a Chinese state actor. Shadowserver quickly responded by detecting and reporting on the exposed networks and devices, alerting cyber response teams, network owners and media. New scanning techniques were developed to determine whether exposed devices were vulnerable and reported through existing mechanisms. Through CSSF funding, Shadowserver helped multiple governments and users in the Indo-Pacific and across the world, including the UK, to help identify and reduce vulnerabilities to a new cyber threat.