Dataharvest 2024 - the European Investigative Journalism Conference

As many states around the globe are ramping up their cyberespionage operations, it becomes all the more important to be able to find out what methods they are using. More often than not, hackers do leave behind digital fingerprints which in turn can be used to re-trace some (maybe even most!) of their steps. In this talk, Hakan Tanriverdi will walk the audience through various ways (some of them are openly available) to conduct investigations into these (state-sponsored) hacking activities. While some of the examples shown might be of immediate use, i.e. for verification, the talk aims to provide an overview by way of generating leads that warrant attention and some further digging.