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Pick Up Digital Breadcrumbs of Criminals within Minutes

Track down digital footprints of criminals within minutes

Names, aliases, email addresses, social media accounts, images—Maltego simplifies the process and complexity of tracing digital footprints and networks of criminals across the surface, deep, and dark web. You can quickly build a comprehensive identity profile or criminal activity history that is otherwise difficult to obtain.

At the German Federal Criminal Police Office, we started using Maltego in 2016 and have kept adding more seats ever since. We consider Maltego as an indispensable tool to fight crime for the new generation of policemen.

Mirko Manske
Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt)

Intelligence and information collection at a glance

Maltego uses link analysis to build a visual overview of your evidence and person of interest. You can pivot between criminal activities and entities by exploring data relationships dynamically in various layouts and spotting patterns and correlations crucial to your investigations.

From the ability to access many different data sources through one tool, to the advanced visualizations, Maltego is an absolutely essential part of modern cybercrime research.

Claudio Canavese
Founder of Avast

Easily and securely access all data in one single interface

Maltego enables you to enrich your internal data with external intelligence sources without the fuss of technical setups—be it deep & dark web, social media, cryptocurrency, or other OSINT or governmental databases. With the Enterprise on-premise deployment plan, we ensure the security of sensitive data with industry standard authentication for impermeable access control.

A great strength of Maltego is the ease of gaining insights from multiple, disparate data sets. In the past couple of years, Maltego has been increasingly developed towards a relevant market place for data and I am excited to see how this will evolve in the future.

Maltego is the first tool I'd install on any researchers laptop, and the first I open any time I'm starting a new investigation. From the ability to access many different data sources through one tool, to the advanced visualisations, its an absolutely essential part of modern cybercrime research

Simply smart, powerful and efficient tool! As a seconded researcher of Trend Micro to INTERPOL and some of my co-researchers, Maltego is essential in our day to day cybercrime investigation for the purpose of chasing down the threat actors and revealing their modus operandi and infrastructure.

Maltego allows us to quickly pull data from profiles, posts, and comments into one graph, where we can conduct text searches and see connections. In just a few minutes, we can narrow initial research to a handful individuals using variations of aliases connected to suspected local traffickers. We would not have been able to do that without Maltego.

I have been an avid user and advocate of Maltego for many years, using it especially for internet infrastructure mapping. However, its automated search and graphing capabilities make it perfectly suited for creating cryptocurrency transaction maps. If you are looking for a low cost entry into address identification, I highly recommend it.

Maltego is a wonderful aggregator of interfaces to various OSINT databases. The company behind Maltego has even formed its own OSINT ecosystem. Maltego can scan a target website, but then it lets its users effortlessly apply what it calls “Transforms” from its ecosystem to connect the web information to various databases. I’ve been blogging about infosec for years, and even I’m nervous about Maltego’s capabilities. With OSINT, knowledge is truly power.

Maltego is simply limitless in the options that it provides us. We see great potential in the default options available in Maltego, from graphing capabilities to the different entities to data integrations. It allows us to extend its capabilities and customize it to our investigative needs.

Leaving criminals no place to hide

OSINT Intelligence Collection

Tap into the vast ocean of OSINT data sources for network analysis, account identification, evidence collection, and threat intelligence to combat organized crime, human trafficking, terrorism, and more.

Social Media Analysis

Build a comprehensive digital profile of criminals and uncover online criminal networks with Maltego’s data integrations for social media intelligence.

Deep & Dark Web Investigations

Monitor chatter and obtain information from deep & dark web sites, forums, channels, and groups without any risk of exposure or technical prerequisite.

Follow the Money

Stop money laundering or financial fraud by easily mapping cryptocurrency movements on various blockchains and analyzing attribution intelligence.

Disinformation Warfare

Identify the sources, distribution networks, reach, and audience of visual, text-, and video-based disinformation campaigns influencing political climates and security matters.

Frequently asked questions

Where is the data stored, and who has access to the data?

Users can store data within Maltego for the duration of their usage session. However, it’s important to note that Maltego is primarily a data visualization and threat intelligence analysis tool. Maltego does not provide centralized data storage. Users’ investigations are locally stored on the analysts’ machine, as Maltego is a locally installed application.

Are there any security and privacy concerns when using Maltego?

The privacy and security of investigations primarily depend on how users handle data, their OPSEC practices, the data sources they use, and how they manage and secure their local machine and Maltego environment.

What are the differences between Maltego Pro and Maltego Enterprise?

Maltego Pro is designed for individuals, while Maltego Enterprise is a more comprehensive version designed for organizations and teams, offering collaboration enablement, dedicated Customer Success Managers, enterprise support SLAs, guided onboarding and deployment, custom engineering, and access to advanced customized training courses. 

To find out more about access to data sources and the number of Transforms allowance in each plan, you can download the overview here.  

More information on Maltego plans can be found here.

What deployment options are available for Maltego?

Maltego Enterprise supports both cloud and on-premise deployment options. Users can choose the deployment option based on their requirements and preferences, including on-premise, their own cloud, or Maltego’s cloud, or even work completely offline.  

These flexible deployment options are designed to allow enterprise teams to focus on investigations while Maltego takes care of setup and maintenance. Please note that these options are not available in the Maltego Pro plan.

What training is available for Maltego users?

All Maltego users have access to our comprehensive online documentation, tutorials, and handbooks. Maltego offers online on-demand learning through a platform called Spark.  

Access to on-demand courses is included in all Enterprise subscriptions. Pro customers get free access to an introductory course and can purchase other courses separately. Enterprise customers also have the option for personalized training and learning guided by Maltego subject matter experts.

What is the onboarding process like for Maltego?

Onboarding time and ease of use can vary based on the user’s familiarity with similar tools and the complexity of their investigative needs. Maltego provides resources such as tutorials, documentation, and community support to aid in onboarding. For Maltego Enterprise users, there is an in-person onboarding option and guided deployment to ensure a smooth setup process.

How does Maltego access data, and how can I use data in Maltego?

Maltego can access data from various public sources and private databases through its integration with different APIs. Users can connect to these APIs to fetch and analyze data within the Maltego platform.  

We offer different models of data access, namely click-and-run, free data, Maltego data subscriptions (or data bundles), and paid API keys, which need to be purchased separately. Find more details here.

Which social media platforms does Maltego support?

Maltego supports integration with various APIs to access data from popular social media platforms and other data sources through Transforms. The specific platforms covered may vary based on the data integrations in use. The specific social media platforms supported can expand over time, so it is best to refer to Maltego’s documentation for the most current information.

Can Maltego access private accounts?

Maltego is a tool for data analysis and visualization and does not provide access to private accounts or unauthorized access to any system or account.

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