Empowering Future Cybersecurity Leaders: Advancing Students through FINDS Education for Digital Forensic Excellence

The Forensics Investigations Network in Digital Sciences FINDS Research Center of Excellence CoE, funded by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, advances Digital Forensic Engineering Education DFEE through an integrated research education framework for AI enabled cybersecurity workforce development...

Scout: Leveraging Large Language Models for Rapid Digital Evidence Discovery

Recent technological advancements and the prevalence of technology in day to day activities have caused a major increase in the likelihood of the involvement of digital evidence in more and more legal investigations. Consumer-grade hardware is growing more powerful, with expanding memory and...

Europol Shuts Down Manson Market Fraud Marketplace, Seizes 50 Servers

Europol on Thursday announced the shutdown of a clearnet marketplace called Manson Market that facilitated online fraud on a large scale. The operation, led by German authorities, has resulted in the seizure of more than 50 servers associated with the service and the arrest of two suspects. More...

Patchwork Hackers Target Chinese Research Organizations Using EyeShell Backdoor

Threat actors associated with the hacking crew known as Patchwork have been spotted targeting universities and research organizations in China as part of a recently observed campaign. The activity, according to KnownSec 404 Team, entailed the use of a backdoor codenamed EyeShell. Patchwork, also...

Tracking Down a Suspect through Cell Phone Records

Interesting forensics in connection with a serial killer arrest: Investigators went through phone records collected from both midtown Manhattan and the Massapequa Park area of Long Island--two areas connected to a "burner phone" they had tied to the killings. In court, prosecutors later said the...

Post-Roe Privacy

This is an excellent essay outlining the post-Roe privacy threat model. Summary: period tracking apps are largely a red herring. Taken together, this means the primary digital threat for people who take abortion pills is the actual evidence of intention stored on your phone, in the form of texts,...

Hackers Planted Fake Digital Evidence on Devices of Indian Activists and Lawyers

A previously unknown hacking group has been linked to targeted attacks against human rights activists, human rights defenders, academics, and lawyers across India in an attempt to plant "incriminating digital evidence." Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne attributed the intrusions to a group it tracks...

Denial of service vulnerability in c-aff4

c-aff4 is an open source format for storing digital evidence and data. A denial of service vulnerability exists in c-aff4. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to cause a software crash...

New Bill Targeting ‘Warrant-Proof’ Encryption Draws Ire

Privacy advocates are decrying a new bill, which would force tech companies to unlock encrypted devices if ordered to do so by law enforcement with a court issued warrant. The Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act was introduced on Tuesday by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham R-SC,...

Cybersecurity Research During the Coronavirus Outbreak and After

Virus outbreaks are always gruesome: people, animals or computer systems get infected within a short time. Of course, viruses spreading across our physical world always take priority over the virtual world. Nevertheless, everyone should keep doing their job, which includes all kinds of malware...

CSI Evidence Indicators for Targeted Ransomware Attacks

ARCHIVED STORY CSI: Evidence Indicators for Targeted Ransomware Attacks – Part I By Trellix · Febraury 12, 2020 For many years now I have been working and teaching in the field of digital forensics, malware analysis and threat intelligence. During one of the classes we always talk about Lockard’s...

G7 Comes Out in Favor of Encryption Backdoors

From a G7 meeting of interior ministers in Paris this month, an "outcome document": Encourage Internet companies to establish lawful access solutions for their products and services, including data that is encrypted, for law enforcement and competent authorities to access digital evidence, when i...

Become a Certified Hacker With This Hands-On Training Course

It seems as though not a day goes by without news spreading over another major cyber attack. Hackers are becoming increasingly efficient at targeting everything from small startups to Fortune 500 companies and even entire government agencies, and as the world moves further away from traditional...

New Report on Police Digital Forensics Techniques

According to a new CSIS report, "going dark" is not the most pressing problem facing law enforcement in the age of digital data: Over the past year, we conducted a series of interviews with federal, state, and local law enforcement officials, attorneys, service providers, and civil society groups...

Advanced Forensics File Format: AFF4

The Advanced Forensics File format 4 was originally designed and published in “Extending the advanced forensic format to accommodate multiple data sources, logical evidence, arbitrary information and forensic workflow” M.I. Cohen, Simson Garfinkel and Bradley Schatz, digital investigation 6 2009...

[Ghiro v0.1] Digital Image Forensic Analyzer

Sometime forensic investigators need to process digital images as evidence. There are some tools around, otherwise it is difficult to deal with forensic analysis with lot of images involved. Images contain tons of information, Ghiro extracts these information from provided images and display them...

Teens' Murderers Leave Online Trail 1.4 Billion Pages Long

Vanity Fair reports that two British Columbia teens convicted of first degree murder used World of Warcraft to plot the rape and murder of a close friend. The result: a trail of online evidence 1.4 billion pages long. Its common knowledge that our increasing reliance on the Internet to communicat...