Group-IB launches Asia-Pacific’s first Cyber Fusion Center in Singapore

The Cyber Fusion Center (CFC) integrates core capabilities in Digital Forensics and Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Attack Surface Management, Managed XDR, Digital Risk Protection, and Fraud Protection under a single operational and unified intelligence-driven ecosystem.

Group-IB has launched its first Cyber Fusion Center in the Asia-Pacific region. Housed within Group-IB’s Digital Crime Resistance Center in Singapore, the Cyber Fusion Center embodies Group-IB’s unified approach to defending businesses and organizations worldwide against evolving digital threats.

Operating as a operates as a single, integrated unit, each component of the CFC amplifies and creates a holistic ecosystem that eliminates blind spots, enables swift and precise action, and ensures total situational awareness across all layers of the digital environment, providing clients multidimensional visibility and unparalleled insights into cyberthreats.

Among the capabilities of the CFC include:

Fraud Protection (FP): Real-time detection and response to digital fraud across financial and e-commerce platforms.
Threat Intelligence (TI): Tailored threat insights built on proprietary data to help organisations stay ahead of cyber adversaries.
Digital Risk Protection (DRP): Proactive defense against brand abuse, impersonation, and data leaks across the surface, deep, and dark web.
Attack Surface Management (ASM): Continuous discovery and analysis of internet-facing assets to identify vulnerabilities and reduce exposure to external threats.
Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR): A unified, fully managed solution combining Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Network Detection and Response (NDR), Business Email Protection (BEP), and malware analysis to deliver 24/7 threat detection, investigation, and response across endpoints, networks, and cloud environments.

In a conversation with CRN Asia, Anastasia Tikhonova, Head of Research of Group-IB said one of the advantages of CFC is that it addresses the challenges a lot of organizations have on dealing with many different cybersecurity tools.

“The CFC consolidates everything into one single platform and makes it easier for cybersecurity management. Organizations want to exactly see what necessary right is now to reject and what threats they can expect in the future. Our Fusion Center is helping in this to precisely provide information on specific threats and predictions of what they will do even before the attacks themselves started. Unlike a SOC system whereby organizations react to some notification from other vendors, it will be only an immediate reaction on some stuff which has happened. For this, it's a long-term solution to help organizations build their future defense before the threats ever start again,” explained Tikhonova.

Looking at the Asia Pacific region, Tikhonova highlighted that there are a lot of cybercrimes involving deepfakes happening in the region. Some cybercriminals are using the same device and are trying to bypass security systems and withdraw funds.

“We see a lot of the mobile Trojans, but they're not specific. They're not widely expressed. We are really detecting a lot of their new development, new tools which they are focused specifically on banking applications. So, they're interacting with banking applications, which already seems to be protected because of a lot of fraud solutions. But then they have hooks who give this application and believe that all that you're doing is legitimate action. And this is what a lot of banks struggle. We see a lot of scam campaigns,” added Tikhonova.

For Tikhonova, all this stuff is really challenging and drastically changes with all the new tools which pop up.

“The cyber criminals always will be the first to implement some new interesting stuff, like AI or some others. So, they will do their best to attack everyone. Unfortunately, not all businesses have the possibility to build an intelligence team inside of their organization, so they should have some outsource or help them to do so/ This is where our managed XDR services come in as well. Everything will be connected with the rules, everything will be analyzed with the alerts, and we even will take alerts from others and give them more intelligence from our side,” Tikhonova said.

Group-IB’s Digital Crime Resistance Center (DCRC) in Singapore is a key part of its global network of 11 cybersecurity hubs. Each center is designed to address the unique cyber threats in its region while operating within a unified framework focused on speed, precision, and local expertise. The Singapore hub will combine Group-IB’s core capabilities, including digital forensics, incident response, cyber investigations, threat intelligence, and specialized support from its Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT).