A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views:
Ransomware payments nearly double in one year
Ransomware payments have nearly doubled to $1.5m (£1.2m) over the past year, with the highest-earning organisations the most likely to pay attackers, according to a survey…
Closed-Box CCTV Acquisition Using Storage Media
It’s time for the latest installment in our CCTV Acquisition series. This week we are moving on and finally acquiring some CCTV footage and preserving it onto a temporary storage device through a closed-box CCTV acquisition…
Trashed: Defendant sanctioned for spoliation of evidence
A federal court granted a motion for sanctions against a defendant truck driver who deleted data on a personal tablet that was mounted on his windshield when an accident occurred…
Read More (Virginia Lawyers Weekly)
The Internet of Things: Fire Sleuth, Fire Starter
Fires are difficult to investigate since they often destroy the evidence of their cause. Now scientists demonstrate how Internet of Things (IoT) gadgets can reveal key clues—but also potentially help arsonists start fires in the first place…
How to hack a smart fridge – Your smart home devices know more about you than you might think
Do you know how many internet-connected devices there are inside your home? I certainly don’t. These days, it could be almost anything: a thermostat, a TV, a lightbulb, an air conditioner, or a refrigerator…
Read More (MIT Technology Review)
DFIR with KAPE and Cado Community Edition
Below we’ve outlined how you can use KAPE with Cado Community Edition, using a canonical example of WannaCry infecting a Windows Server install…
Ransomware watchers are finding creative ways to track attacks
It’s difficult to fix a problem when you can’t measure it. That maxim has dominated most conversations around ransomware over the past decade…
Modern Digital Forensic Tools: How New Tools Cut through The Noise To Find Evidence
Magnet AXIOM is one of Detective Gish’s go-to tools and it’s part of what allows him to create the story of what has happened based on the data collected from digital devices…
Justice Department Announces Court-Authorized Disruption of Snake Malware Network Controlled by Russia’s Federal Security Service
The Justice Department today announced the completion of a court-authorized operation, code-named MEDUSA, to disrupt a global peer-to-peer network of computers compromised by sophisticated malware, called “Snake”…
Read More (US Department of Justice)
‘We Will Nab Financial Criminals through Deployment of Digital Forensics’
The Chairman, Board of Diplomats for Digital Forensics, Chartered Institute of Forensics and Certified Fraud Investigators of Nigeria (CIFCFIN), Prof. Adesina Sodiya, has stated that digital forensics is about the acquisition of digital evidence and analysis of digital evidence and the scientific approach to investigation and prosecution…
