If you are just getting started in infosec or cybersecurity, you have probably heard of the term OSINT. OSINT or Open Source Intelligence plays a crucial role in all sorts of investigations. If investigating means to move from a question to an answer, OSINT can often be employed to find the answer. In this article,…
Executive Summary 🔗︎ Cryptocurrency has seen enormous growth in the world economy. However, this has paved the way for criminal activity on the blockchain, which is why it is becoming increasingly important to trace and investigate transactions in different cryptocurrencies. The tools to obfuscate criminal cryptocurrency transactions are constantly evolving and luckily, so are the…
In Part 1, we introduced the handy Maltego automation feature known as Machines, and how to use them to further accelerate your investigations. Today, we are happy to announce the release of a new set of Machines designed for cybersecurity and social media investigations. Maltego Machines: A Blog Series 🔗︎ What are Maltego Machines? As…
Executive Summary 🔗︎ Ransomware is a type of software that encrypts users’ data, ensuring that they can no longer recover it without payment. It has been around since about 1989 and has become a very lucrative business with a bleeding impact on organizations: Financial cost of pay-out, loss of reputation, agencies’ fines, permanent data loss,…
With nearly 2.5 billion unique profiles available for searching, People Data Labs allows investigators to advance their person of interest investigations in seconds and with a single click. Founded in 2015, People Data Labs began as recruiting software intended to help companies better understand and source candidates. Today companies around the world and across industries…
Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT) is considered to be a sub-discipline of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). SOCMINT can be defined as the techniques, technologies, and tools that allow for the collection and analysis of information from social media platforms. SOCMINT can be harnessed by government or non-state actors, such as private intelligence agencies or marketing companies,…
Executive Summary 🔗︎ Maltego is an unparalleled tool when it comes to data mining and visualization, and our biggest sources of data—be it threat intel, social media, company data, or other OSINT data—are the different layers of the internet: the surface web, the deep web, and the dark web. While the deep and the dark…
Maltego Support: Committed To Empowering Meaningful And Excellent Investigations 🔗︎ The Maltego Support team cares and commits to support our Enterprise customers as soon as need(s) arise. Currently, our support team works from 8am to 6pm CET (7am to 5pm GMT) from Monday to Friday. Normally, we maintain operations even on public holidays to support…
Executive Summary 🔗︎ This blog article examines the psychological rather than the technical aspect of Maltego, in particular – cognitive biases. Understanding and mitigating these phenomena is incredibly important to ensure that the intelligence gathered and the subsequent conclusions derived, are objective and will yield the best possible results. We will look into three examples…
The “Mindset” Challenge 🔗︎ The first hurdle for analysts is identifying the relevant and diagnostic information from the increasing volume of ambiguous and contradictory data that is acquired through open source and clandestine means… all individuals assimilate and evaluate information through the medium of “mental models” (sometimes also called “frames” or “mind-sets”). United States Government.…
