Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 06 2025

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Read the latest DFIR news – starting a digital forensic business, Hashcat v7.0.0, GenAI incident response guidance, cross-border investigation challenges, and more....

Halfway Through The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session

Halfway Through The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session

We are halfway through the S21 Transcriber Spotlight — catch up on the latest demos and see how investigators are using the tool in real casework....read more

Safeguarding ICAC Investigators: Detego Global’s Commitment To Mental Well-Being

Safeguarding ICAC Investigators: Detego Global’s Commitment To Mental Well-Being

Protecting children online shouldn't come at the cost of investigators' mental health—see how Detego Global is changing the game....read more

Semantics 21 Wants Your Help To Rename LASERi-X

Semantics 21 Wants Your Help To Rename LASERi-X

Semantics 21 is renaming their groundbreaking CSAM forensics tool—and your idea could win your team a free year of access....read more

Nuix National Security Summit Returns To London In September

Nuix (www.nuix.com) today announed that it will once again host its National Security Summit on 25 September 2019 at London, Victoria.This exclusive one-day summit brings together digital forensic investigators from law enforcement, government and public sector organisations with the Nuix

What’s Happening In Forensics – Sep 03, 2019

Sandfly 2.2 has been released, with new capabilities around web shell detection and anti-forensics detection. Kristian Lars Larsen talks about the huge amount of discoverable data in the cloud. Derek Manky talks about investigating cases that involve obfuscation and anti-forensics.

How To Acquire Video Data With MD-VIDEO From HancomGMD

Due to the rapidly growing need for securing safe environments around the world, digital surveillance systems have become ubiquitous. A significant number of new surveillance systems are installed each year, and the importance of acquiring actionable data from these systems

How To Acquire Video Data With MD-VIDEO From HancomGMD

Due to the rapidly growing need for securing safe environments around the world, digital surveillance systems have become ubiquitous. A significant number of new surveillance systems are installed each year, and the importance of acquiring actionable data from these systems

Walkthrough: VFC 5.0

What is Virtual Forensic Computing? Virtual computing transforms investigation of the digital crime scene. Having access to the ‘digital scene of crime’ can offer huge benefits to an investigator. Whether investigating fraud, murder, child abuse or something else, seeing the

Walkthrough: How VFC 5 Can Exploit Windows Live ID (Inc PIN)

What is Virtual Forensic Computing? Virtual computing transforms investigation of the digital crime scene. Having access to the ‘digital scene of crime’ can offer huge benefits to an investigator. Whether investigating fraud, murder, child abuse or something else, seeing the

VFC 5 – Now Includes Windows Live ID Exploit (Inc PIN Accounts)

Following on from our July announcement about the successful launch of VFC 5 with all its significant New Features. (Early Customer feedback) “I have downloaded version 5 and have used it on a couple of occasions recently, I find it

What’s Happening In Forensics – Aug 30, 2019

Brett Shavers talks about the importance of making yourself uncomfortable in DFIR. Olga Milishenko from Atola demonstrates TaskForce’s drive identification capabilities. Vladimir Katalov shows how to extract and decrypt Signal history from iPhones.

Now Released: XRY 8.0.2

New XRY 8.0.2 for mobile device extraction is now available. This release adds support for iOS 13 and 79 new app versions on iOS and Android.Improved support for the Telegram app The Telegram app uses end-to-end encryption for Secret Chats

How To Use Connection Graphs By Belkasoft For Complex Cases

A proper connection graph is a must if you need to investigate a complex case with numerous individuals using different communication media. In law enforcement, it may be a drug-related case with several dealers and a network of buyers, or

Multi-Object Detection – Now In Griffeye Brain

Ever since its launch last summer, our AI technology, Griffeye Brain, has been a success in changing the way investigators approach CSA investigations. After the first release it has been continuously developed in several steps, and now it’s time to

Release of Analyze 19.2 – Boosting the AI power

Griffeye Brain is one of our most advanced and innovative technologies in the Analyze platform. Now we can proudly announce that it has been boosted even further. From today, Griffeye Brain is GPU-accelerated which in this case means significantly higher

Parrot drone data extraction in Oxygen Forensic Detective

Oxygen Forensic Detective is the only digital forensic tool that offers investigators the most robust features to extract digital evidence from various Parrot drone sources, parse and decode data, and present it in a easily readable form. It covers all