Challenges in Geolocating Cryptocurrency Transactions for Law Enforcement Investigators

Sponsored by: TeleStrategies' ISS World

Online webinar:
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
9:00-10:00 AM - New York, EDT
14:00-15:00 - London Time

Presented by:
Dr. Matthew Lucas - TeleStrategies/ISS World
Dr. Vladimír Veselý - Assistant professor for Computer Networks at Brno University of Technology

Free and open to government, telecoms, private enterprise security executives and ISS vendors. Pre-registration with your government or corporate issued email address is required.

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Challenges in Geolocating Cryptocurrency Transactions for Law Enforcement Investigators

It is a common misunderstanding that cryptocurrencies (such as Bitcoin) offer complete anonymity for their users. They don’t. They are merely pseudonymous – which means they are anonymous only until someone reveals who is behind them. Therein lies the problem. Typically investigators have to wait until the owner of a cryptocurrency address involved with a transaction of interest interacts with an entity, such as an exchange, before they can uncover meaningful identifying information. 

There is another way to de-anonymize transactions. Cryptocurrency users (and misusers) have to interact with the bitcoin network, miners, and other clients to record their transactions. In doing so, they are constantly leaving network traces / footprints. This webinar will look at network-based investigation techniques that can be used to dissect and analyze the network communications between cryptocurrency clients, peers, miners and other components; and show how that communications can be used to discover who is behind transactions in real time. Specific topics covered include:

1. How to monitor cryptocurrency peers and their activities at the network layer;
2. Types of network, encryption and communications protocols used;
3. Transaction geolocation - how to bind committed cryptocurrency transaction with IP address;
4. How to enhance blockchain data with OSINT and HUMINT;
5. Case studies/examples

Presented by:
Dr. Matthew Lucas - TeleStrategies/ISS World
Dr. Vladimír Veselý - Assistant professor for Computer Networks at Brno University of Technology

Bio:  
Dr. Vladimír Veselý works as an assistant professor for Computer Networks at Brno University of Technology since 2017. His research involves: 1) cryptocurrencies and practical deployment of blockchain-based technologies; 2) modelling and simulation of complex systems; and 3) large-scale routing/switching networking designs. He regularly assists law enforcement agencies in tracking cryptocurrency assets involved with illicit activities and identifying their owners. He co-founded a university spin-off company called Netsearch, which researches and develops specialized solutions for cryptocurrency forensics, password recovery, traffic interception and decoding.

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