The Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine was established in 2015 to detect and investigate all crimes committed using the information technologies and telecommunications. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Department has been actively involved in protecting Ukraine’s cyber defence and carrying out tasks related to cyber warfare, as a measure to counter the armed aggression of the Russian Federation.
The Department is tasked with leading various criminal investigations such as computer-related fraud, internet crimes, child abuse, and performing tasks related to protecting Ukrainian cyber infrastructure and more. Their day-to-day work requires them to gather and analyze information from OSINT, social media intelligence, infrastructure footprinting, and other data sources.
Maltego is widely used in daily activities of the Ukrainian Cyber Police 🔗︎
Since 2020, the Ukrainian Cyber Police Department has relied on Maltego to analyze digital traces of suspected individuals across the internet, including social networks, websites, forums, financial transactions, and other user activities across the surface web and the dark web. They use Maltego particularly for the execution and report generation of the following aspects of their criminal investigative work:
- Discovering Relationships
- Social Network Analysis
- Person or Organization Profiling
- Domains and IP Address Tracking
According to investigators of the Ukrainian Cyber Police Department, the main advantage of using Maltego is the possibility to apply a flexible approach.
Maltego’s strength lies in its capacity to visualize relationships among Entities, even when dealing with large volumes of data.
Ukrainian Cyber Police 🔗︎
Ultimately, Maltego enables the Ukrainian Cyber Police to quickly obtain information about the subject from the surface web and the deep and dark web.
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