Today’s criminal investigations often rely on digital evidence residing on mobile devices. During investigations, it’s the mobile forensics investigator’s responsibility to extract and collect that digital evidence. There’s no one “right path” to becoming a mobile forensics investigator.
To combat a Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) case, an agency turned to Magnet GRAYKEY to process multiple smartphones. This case study details the events of their investigation and how GRAYKEY helped bring justice to the victims. Note: Due to the sensitivity of this case, and to respect the victims, this case study is anonymous.
Law Enforcement agencies perform logical acquisitions of unlocked iOS devices when they do not have access to Magnet GRAYKEY. The logical acquisition has been an industry-leading iOS acquisition method used by investigators and forensic examiners because of its simplicity and level of support. However, device security is one of the biggest roadblocks to completing logical acquisitions. For a logical acquisition to take place, device access needs to be granted using a passcode, and a trusted connection is required in most instances.
Magnet AXIOM is one of Detective Gish’s go-to tools and it’s part of what allows him to create the story of what has happened based on the data collected from digital devices.
Magnet Forensics is a proud partner and supporter of the Child Rescue Coalition (CRC). The CRC is “a nonprofit organization that rescues children from sexual abuse by building technology for law enforcement, free of charge, to track, arrest, and prosecute child predators.”
If you aren’t using AXIOM with GrayKey, you could be missing valuable data. Magnet Forensics and Grayshift, makers of GrayKey, have an exclusive worldwide technology partnership that offers law enforcement agencies unique investigative power to surface advanced mobile forensic data for iOS and Android devices.
If you aren’t using AXIOM with GrayKey, you could be missing valuable data. Magnet Forensics and Grayshift, makers of GrayKey, have an exclusive worldwide technology partnership that offers law enforcement agencies unique investigative power to surface advanced mobile forensic data for iOS and Android devices.
For those unfamiliar, according to icactaskforce.org, the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Program “is a national network of 61 coordinated task forces, representing more than 5,400 federal, state, and local law enforcement dedicated to investigating, prosecuting, and developing effective responses to internet crimes against children.”
It is important for law enforcement to be able to access critical evidence to help with faster case resolution.
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