Corporate Insiders and How They Operate
When people think about threats to a company, they usually imagine hooded hackers sitting in dark rooms, furiously typing while green text scrolls across their screens. Hollywood has done an…
Ecclesiastical Forensics: Between Faith and Crime
When people hear the word “forensics,” they usually imagine crime scenes, fingerprint powder, or somebody in sunglasses dramatically removing their gloves before announcing the victim died “between 8:13 and 8:17…
Ransomware Rebranding: When Cybercriminals Try a Fresh Start (Again)
In the business world, companies rebrand when sales are down, public image is damaged, or somebody in marketing decides the logo needs to look “more modern.” In the ransomware world,…
TTPs and Modus Operandi: Same Criminal Brain, Different Vocabulary
If you spend enough time reading about cyberattacks, criminal investigations, espionage, or serial killers, you eventually notice something interesting: investigators from completely different fields often describe criminals in surprisingly similar…
Financial Hide-and-Seek: How Smurfing Works
Smurfing is one of those criminal techniques that sounds oddly adorable until you realize it’s basically financial hide-and-seek with regulators. No, it has nothing to do with tiny blue cartoon…
Psychological Autopsy: Investigating a Mind After Death
When someone dies under unclear or controversial circumstances, investigators typically begin by searching for physical evidence. Fingerprints, blood patterns, toxicology reports, phone records, and surveillance footage are all part of…
Why Dumpster Diving Can Be Dangerous for Individuals and Organizations
Dumpster diving is a practice that consists of searching through discarded materials (usually in trash bins or dumpsters) in order to recover items or information that may still have value.…
Geoprofiling: The Geography Behind Criminal Behavior
Geoprofiling means geographic profiling. It’s an investigative technique used in criminology and criminal profiling to estimate the most likely area where an offender lives, works, or frequently visits, based on…