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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

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: High-tech toolkit to analyze digital evidence made more efficient and budget-friendly for law enforcement agencies Purdue University researchers simplify FileTSAR+ functionality and packaging to improve setup, use and maintenance… Read

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Hunted, UK Reality TV Show, Uses Oxygen Forensic® Detective To Hunt Contestants Hunted and Celebrity Hunted is a reality TV show where 14 individuals attempt to evade capture by a

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: March 2023 broke ransomware attack records with 459 incidents March 2023 was the most prolific month recorded by cybersecurity analysts in recent years, measuring 459 attacks, an increase of 91%

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Importing NSRL V3 hashsets into legacy tools NSRLConvert can change the new SQLite NSRL hashsets into a plain list of MD5 hashes. The program is available here and can be

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Having Fun doing Mobile Forensics When working on our Capstone Project, “Apple AirTag Forensics; The Phantom Menace,” we had to jailbreak the phone that we are using so that we

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Memory Forensics R&D Illustrated: Detecting Hidden Windows Services To begin the series, this post discusses a new detection technique for hidden services on Windows 7 through 11. Since not all

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: One of the darkweb’s largest cryptocurrency laundromats washed out German and US authorities, supported by Europol, have targeted ChipMixer, a cryptocurrency mixer well-known in the cybercriminal underworld… Read More (Europol)

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: How Magnet Forensics catches the worst kind of criminals On Jamaica’s beaches, Stanley Saunders didn’t exactly stand out. He looked like a lot of other Canadian tourists: middle-aged, pale and

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: How blockchain can improve digital evidence collection and collaboration Blockchain offers an immutable chain of custody that guarantees data integrity, prevents fraud and provides a transparent, auditable system of record

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Threat intelligence: Why Attributing Cyber-Attacks Matters Cyber attribution is a sensitive subject, not least because of the potential political fallout. Even when cybersecurity experts observed an explosion of wiper malware

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Forensic 4:cast Awards 2023 – Nominations are now open! Listen up, ’cause nominations are officially open, and we need your help to recognize the best in the digital forensics and

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Road Rage Murder Investigated Using Cell Phone Forensics Kaufman’s body was located alongside I-440 in Nashville on the evening of December 3rd 2020, still sitting in the driver’s seat of

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Presenting digital evidence in court Presenting digital evidence in court is an onerous and complex process. Dr Ian Kennedy CITP FBCS MCSFS outlines the processes, rules and future of digital