However, when a case hits an impasse, when no witnesses come forward, DNA evidence remains untraceable, and no usable prints are found, it confronts the risk of stagnation. What happens when a case teeters on the brink of going cold?
That’s where Cybercheck can help. The company is introducing the concept of Cyber DNA.
“Almost all crime scenes, even those dating back as far as 20 years, are covered in Cyber DNA. But you can’t see it. It doesn’t fit into traditional policing methods, and it exists largely on the dark and deep web,” says Adam W. Mosher, the CTO of Cybercheck.
Cybercheck uses AI and ML in a whole new way, identifying “fragments” of Cyber DNA that leak from crime scenes, linking them to a suspect’s cyber profile. Whether it is homicide, narcotics, human trafficking, child exploitation, missing persons, or any other form of major crime, Cybercheck can help solve cases that are at the point of being seemingly impossible to solve, including cold cases as far back as the year 2000.
Cybercheck’s OpenSource Intelligence (OSINT)- and Signal Intelligence (SIGINT)-based methodology yields highly accurate results that not only help law enforcement solve difficult cases but also will stand up in court to help see the case all the way through to a plea agreement or conviction.
Ultimately, evidence needs to survive the judiciary process and prove beyond doubt that a prosecution case and theory is accurate. Cybercheck spends significant processing resources on ensuring the accuracy of findings, providing correlation and deconfliction across multiple layers of information supporting a case. Once a theory has been developed and it survives the accuracy tests, it can be further proven and supported using additional techniques derived from search warrants, DNA analysis, computer forensics, and other traditional investigation methods. Cybercheck surfaces hidden Cyber DNA leads, allowing law enforcement to backstop those using traditional methods, moving a case forward, and enabling search and arrest warrants.
Almost all crime scenes, even those dating back as far as 20 years, are covered in Cyber DNA. But you can’t see it. It doesn’t fit into traditional policing methods, and it exists, largely, on the dark and deep Web
As an example, the New York State Police had over 50,000 man-hours into a cold case of the tragic homicide of Megan McDonald. They had hundreds of leads over two decades and couldn’t get enough evidence that would lead to an arrest. The starting point for Cybercheck was the case details from an article in the New York Times. After Cybercheck finished processing through its five layers of intelligence, two cyber profiles were found to be present with Megan leading up to her death. This new cyber profile intelligence belonging to the two suspects allowed new DNA to be processed, which matched DNA present in Megan’s car after her disappearance, giving law enforcement what they needed to finally make an arrest in this 20-year-old case.
Cybercheck is also highly effective in providing threat intelligence by implementing an early warning system against ransomware attacks for corporations and governments. Every attack today originates on the dark web, yet most organizations remain blind to threats emerging there. Attackers know this and operate with impunity on the dark web. Cybercheck machine learning-based automation enumerates and surfaces threats to organizations that are specific and actionable, detecting compromises, attack staging, and illegal activity in its earlier stages when there is still time to do something about it.
