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The echo’s of investors had started the buzz of the need for new investigative / intelligence platforms a great deal more than there had been in the past few years.…
PR: Italy’s Soft Strategy & ShadowDragon Partner providing Investigative training & advanced investigative capabilities.
Rome, Italy JUNE 22, 2020 – SoftStrategy and ShadowDragon partner together to provide advanced investigative training. As the world has become more sophisticated, many businesses have needed to adapt to…
Training, methodology, and not dying in a ball of twisted metal
Here at ShadowDragon, since 2008 we have been building world class OSINT tools and cyber security products. From SocialNet to OIMonitor to Malnet, we’ve put together solutions for solving problems,…
Into the Dark Webs
## What is the DarkWeb The dark web sounds scary, but in reality, it is anything you cannot get to via Google, or that uses a masked IP address. The…
Where does operational security begin?
Over the course of the last few months, we’ve blogged about finding bad guys by guessing emails, mapping friends, understanding emotional behavior, and leveraging laziness and poor password habits. All…
Rate Limits in Data Visualization
One of the most frustrating things to happen in any data visualization software is for you to run a query and get back the notification: “This result returns more nodes…
Becoming Dark Web Rambo
There’s a lot of mystery that surrounds the dark web–surprisingly, even in the information security space. I’ve met a huge swath of capable engineers and developers who can explain the…
Cutting your teeth on ShadowDragon’s advanced CTF
We’ve talked in recent weeks about the importance of training and the methodology behind it. Much of the OSINT work we do is focused on the social aspects and footprint…
Additional Insights into Iranian Cyber Espionage | APT33
Earlier this week FireEye/Mandiant had released a blog entitled “Insights into Iranian Cyber Espionage” detailing the targets within the Aerospace and Energy sectors being targeted. To compliment their post we…
Hacking in the Middle East
In the past, we have looked into a hacker who comes from Iran by the name of Mrb3hz4d. Now if we take some of the information we saw from his…
Data vs. Intelligence
It would take about 3 minutes to teach someone how to collect data on a single individual. That is easy to do. You poke around and find out all you…
Fishing with a Subaru
There comes a time in some OSINT investigations where we have accurately identified our target’s profiles, lifestyle, and communication platforms, but we still aren’t quite to the point of pinpointing…
Demystifying the Dark Web: Part 3
After looking at the structure of both the dark web and normal web, we can now start to see why so many people want the benefits Tor gives, especially the…