How law enforcement agencies, financial institutions, and enterprise security teams use CyberTrace to close investigations that manual OSINT could not.
A state cybercrime unit had been investigating a dark web marketplace selling pharmaceutical-grade narcotics across 6 Indian cities for over 3 months with no significant leads. The operators used encrypted aliases, cryptocurrency, and layered anonymization — leaving no conventional investigative trail. Manual OSINT had recovered only 3 vendor aliases with no real-world linkage.
CyberTrace's automated dark web crawler indexed the marketplace across Tor and I2P simultaneously, correlating vendor behaviour patterns, writing styles, PGP key timestamps, and cryptocurrency wallet footprints.
CyberTrace correlated 14 vendor aliases to a single real-world identity. The full network of 22 individuals was mapped. Prosecution commenced with a court-ready 89-page intelligence report — all generated within CyberTrace's report module. Prior manual investigation had taken 3 months with no actionable leads.
A multinational software company's security team detected snippets of proprietary source code appearing in a competitor's product release. Internal DLP tools had not flagged any exfiltration. The company needed to identify the leak source and build a legally defensible evidence trail before initiating civil proceedings.
CyberTrace performed a multi-vector investigation: scanning dark web paste sites for code fragments, cross-referencing GitHub repositories, tracing developer forum aliases, and correlating breach data with internal employee credential lists.
CyberTrace identified the leaking employee's secondary alias on a dark web developer board offering proprietary backend APIs for sale. Digital forensics on the device (with legal authorization) confirmed the exfiltration. Civil complaint filed under IT Act Section 66B — case settled within 6 months.
An NBFC's credit team flagged unusual patterns in a batch of 240 high-value loan applications — all appearing legitimate on surface-level KYC checks. The company's standard verification process returned no adverse media on any applicant. But the simultaneous nature and geographic clustering of applications suggested organised fraud.
CyberTrace's batch OSINT mode processed all 240 applicants simultaneously, cross-referencing their digital footprints across social media, dark web, business registries, court records, and news archives.
CyberTrace identified that 68 of the 240 applicants shared shell company directorships, coordinated social media creation dates, and a shared IP address cluster from their online applications. All 68 applications were rejected. FIU-IND complaint filed — coordinated fraud network subsequently prosecuted.
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