Posts Tagged ‘Android forensics’

Creating a digital forensic laboratory is a responsible step. The effectiveness of the laboratory depends on what software, hardware and equipment will be purchased.

DFC specialists took part in the creation and upgrade of several digital forensic laboratories owned by state organizations and private entities and today they will share their tips and tricks.

Mankind is trying to improve everyday objects in order to facilitate our life. Attacks on consumer smart devices can allow an attacker to gain constant access to the victim’s network. This type of attack can be prevented by disabling – or more effectively – removing the JTAG ports completely from production devices, thereby minimising its attack surface.

Attackers are constantly improving and therefore are looking for new attacks, using evasion techniques to maintain the effectiveness of old vectors in the ever-changing protective landscape. Many of these threat participants use the obfuscation framework for common scripting languages, such as JavaScript and PowerShell, to prevent signature-based detection of conventional offensive tradecraft written in these languages. Some hidden intruders have translated their tradecraft into languages ​​that do not support this additional visibility.

Android OS is one of the most vulnerable to viruses platforms. This is confirmed by the increasingly pop-up news about various viruses and vulnerabilities.