Deepfake advancements are making it increasingly difficult to trust someone’s word, much less your own eyes. The newest development in the deepfake industry is the real-time deepfake, where a live virtual call could be presented by a false, digitized version of an authentic person.
Buying and selling items online has never been easier, thanks to cryptocurrency. A virtual form of payment, cryptocurrency promises efficient, safer, and more anonymous transactions. Like any internet activity, exchanging cryptocurrency can support your goals, or damper them—unless you’ve been properly debriefed first.
Every time you go online, you leave behind traces of yourself. This can include things like the browser you’re using, your IP address, and the posts you make on social media platforms. These traces combine to create your signature.
For many analysts, the OSINT process starts with a request for information (RFI), which results in analysts immediately collecting as much information as possible—often beginning with a photo to jump-start the intelligence collection process.
A geolocation refers to the identification of an electronic device’s geographical location using certain technologies, like GPS. Once a device has been located, so can the individual who owns that device, as people usually keep their electronics in close proximity. Law enforcement investigators can use these geolocations to collect open...
Anyone can download and access Tor nodes—which means, anyone could potentially discover the node you’re using to access the Tor browser. But a Tor bridge is an entry point to the Tor network that is not listed publicly, making them more difficult for online users to identify.
The Justice Department announced last month that Operation DisrupTor, an internationally coordinated effort to dismantle criminal activity on the dark web, had arrested 179 individuals involved in opioid trafficking. This successful operation, following many other high-profile dark web takedowns, is causing turmoil among the online drug trafficking community.
Internet archiving services are powerful open source intelligence (OSINT) tools that can be used like a time machine to look back in time for information that may be crucial to an online investigation. But, just as they can provide a glimpse into the past, these services have also been used...
The ability to perform OSINT efficiently and without detection is not any easy task. Our trained cyber analysts offer a number of virtual courses on OSINT training. At the Academy, our analysts discuss the collection phase of the OSINT cycle, OSINT research, and OSINT investigations.
Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs, are supposed to provide consumers with a secure and easy-to-use way to traverse the internet—after all, “private” is right there in the name. But what if the information we provided to those services was not so private?
