Counteracting Narcotics Narcoterrorism W/OSINT - Schuyler Davis

all right good afternoon everyone before I start I would like to ask you guys this question what game is affiliated with the color pink if you don't know you will find out by the end of my presentation so this is today's session guys I'm going to let you know a little bit more about myself I'm going to give you some background knowledge on open source intelligence and some really great tools that you can use I'm going to give you a telegram case study closing and then question and answers so who am I my name is Sky Davis and as the young lady stated before and I'm a computer science teacher and it coordinator at a small Charter School in

New Jersey I'm currently enrolled in the cyber crime and digital investigation Masters program at Michigan State University but on the side I'm an open source intelligence analist where I help law enforcement identify victims of sex trafficing now during these investigations I realized that osen can be used to help with the drug trafficking issue and narot terrorism I come from a city that has a large narcotics issue and as someone who wants to keep his community safe and eventually work with law enforcement I realize open source is the way to go to dismantle this issue so I want you guys to imagine if you were in a small town and you notice drugs especially fit and flooding the

streets and an increase in violence what can you do as a civilian to help the community what are the tools law enforcement can use to dismantle Nar terrorism and Nar trafficking from taking place so before I give you guys those tools let me explain what narot terrorism is the term narot terrorism was coined in 1983 it was a term used to describe campaigns by drug traffickers using terrorist methods such as car bombs kidnapp and assassinations against anti-narcotics police in colia and Peru Narco terrorism also involves criminal organizations using funds made from their drug transactions to carry out violence and support their operations there are many instances of Nar terrorism actually takes place in America in both large and small

neighborhoods like colus Georgia now how is fit and all these elicit drugs getting into the community the dark web now have many of you guys in the audience heard about the dark web before all right now in my research I found out that many drug traffickers are no longer using tour or the dark web they're now using telegram due to the encryption capabilities and the other SP special capabilities on telegram on telegram you're not able to screen record or screenshot messages and images which makes it harder to identify and recognize who these individuals are however there are ways around it right here guys is an example of a telegram Channel and as you can see on

the right hand side is fent powder and a menu with uh Coke um and Other Drugs it's as if you're going to a restaurant or a fast food place where you can just order any type of drugs you want and on the left hand side are pills now this is very serious ladies and gentlemen because kids have access to telegram young adults have access to telam this is where open source intelligence comes into play open source intelligence for those of you that don't know is assessing publicly available information using social media reverse Imaging reverse phone numbers arrest records home address and voting records so I guarantee you right now if you Google your name your address may come up and a

lot of us has used o in the past for all of you that are college students you use oen more than likely to look up your professor or rap my professor or for those of you who are interested in somebody and wanting to get to know them you use oen they go to their Instagram account or their Facebook account so we've all used oen in some way shape or form right here guys are two o tools that are very powerful pen eyes and Pastor reconnaissance pen eyes is an open source tool for identifying someone pen is more effective than Google reverse Imaging and I say that because if you were to upload a picture onto

Google reverse image of yourself your more than likely will not come up but if you are wearing a blue polo shirt or glasses then someone else in a blue polo shirt or glasses will come up pin is much more effective because it's recognizing your face now pass for condence is information back it's just doing your due diligence and doing the detective this is the fun stuff but although it's fun I must warn you guys it's a lot of hard work sometimes you might go down a rabbit hole sometimes you might frustrated when this does happen I recommend you guys just walk away you come back and you continue to do the passive forance now right here guys is the case

study for the telegram I found by doing passive reconnaissance when you go into telegram all the channels you can find by typing in simple words such as drugs FAL zans or other terms for drugs now one thing that I know when I went on to this channel was there was a sharable link and one thing that passor forense requires us to do is research so I put this link on to different social media apps including Twitter Instagram and Facebook but the only one that I found a match with was Twitter so as you can see here on Twitter which is surprising because shouldn't Twitter or social media as be filtering out weapons filtering out drugs once again guys teenagers kids

have access to social media why aren't these apps doing something to fate things out like this so as you can see there's a picture of uh mushrooms and there's a picture of uh guns and I noticed if you guys notice there are two distinct pictures meaning that there are multiple people posting this link get this is a large organization of individuals who are using telr to FL flood our streets with guns weapons Etc so I clicked on the links of the individuals who are posting this link and I thought wow I got because I saw a first name and a last name but that wasn't aliens guys that was a fake name and I was disappointed but I said you

know what I can also use pen to try to get an accurate name of the individual but as you can see in the picture on the right their FA is covered with money and when this happens P eyes is not able to recognize the face so you need a clear picture so this is where pass reconnaissance came and again I went through the other person's account and if you can see on the right hand side what is similar about both pictures that time the setting is the same and this individual had their face uncovered so I put the results into P eyes and as you see on the left hand side the individual already had arrest

records I clicked on to those arrest records and I found out the young man and a few others were fleing from police officers into a mall in Columbus Georgia I went through the article and I found out that they were all arrested for guns marijuana and scales and Drug Familia I continue to do research on young men and to go back to my first question do any of you guys know what gang is associated with the color pink so we all know red is associated with a game we know blue is associated with the game for those of you that are from New York we know that green is associated with the game and yellow as

well as I continue to do research on this young man I found an old Facebook account this young man had a pink banana wrapped around his neck at first I thought it was professional I said no there might be an affiliation with so on Google I typed in games that were pink and I did not come up with any results instead I got pictures from the ladies from the movie Grease I said okay that's not them they're they're not greasers so remember P con is doing research so I know this takes place in Columbus Georgia so I typed in Columbus Georgia games and I was met with a link to a Facebook account as you can see on the

left hand side of individuals we now you guys might be saying okay Sky how does this relate to Nar terrorism how does this relate to F to get to that in one second one of the members of the game was found guilty of assaulting a Federal Officer or FBI agent as I stated before narot terrorism is the act of drug traffickers attacking anti-narcotic officers or federal agents as I Contin to do research I found out that in the same city Columbus Georgia there was a large fit in drug bu in the area that was committed by the same game now this game is a hyperd game where there's many games uh or popular games come together

so they can make money from Guns drugs and other things and I must mention guys that a lot of the drugs that are now on the streets are full of f in New Mexico we have an issue with fit in New Jersey where I'm from there's an issue with fit right down the street from where I live near School nine game members were busted last month for selling High quantities of fit and one thing that we can do guys as I show you from just a telegram link and pen and pass reconnaissance these individuals can be uncovered and we can try to clean up our streets so right here guys is just um a really sad article about um drug deaths

inom Georgia is continuing to go up and um in my state guys very sad um 12,000 packages of fit drugs were found so what did you learn o is effective in helping identify narcotic traffickers the dark oh to be used by civilians like yourself there are many different volunteer uh organizations that you can join to either help uh with the sex trafficking uh industry or with the drug trafficking industry to help identify those individuals and L goods are advertised on social media uh once again guys uh my name is Sky Davis uh thank you guys for listening um here is uh the link to myog where I talk about digital forensics and um other cyber crime things um you can

email me attech gmail.com I forgot to mention that I have an LLC called a trap Tech where I teach uh kids the basics of cyber security and I also train law enforcement on open

source and at this time is there any questions

great presentation thank you so much thank you sir I wanted to ask you about the next steps so you found information that related this encrypted channel to an individual and you're working with some kind of program that involves the law enforcement but how do you go about packaging the material do you create reports describe your findings how do you um ensure that the information is presentable in court is there anything you do to preserve the Integrity of the information and how do you go about according to law enforcement very good question so once it's passed on to law enforcement is out of my hands um I'm just doing the research and the VOC so once uh they have the names and they

have the pictures and evidence then they go and they continue to resch and investigations to arrest any other

questions so you talked about us being able to do this like if you were looking to put any of that information collect things maybe around

neighborh can you do that correct you can do that because once again one of org that I volunteer for guardan group um once I go to the escort website and identify the victims of sex trafficking based on indicators and red flags I write up a report uh with all the steps that I took to identify them and uh it gets packag and sent off to law enforcement I encourage you to reach out to your local law enforcement so you guys can come up with the to this question I have one um how do you protect yourself your identity is it anonymized I'm glad you last that so it's called a slof puppet uh what I use not an action

puppet guys all right but U it's a fake IDE right uh where you create an AIS for yourself they're doing it right so you have to do this as well because you don't want to accidentally like something on your actual account like I did once and I had to delete my account but um you come up with a fake account so you don't have uh any connection back to yourself on telegram you need a number to use in order to sign up so there's many uh text apps that you can use to use a fake number to get access to that's a very good question can I do a followup huh can I do a followup

followup question yes it's a little bit tangential I'm really curious what do you teach the kids okay so I teach uh my students uh scratch junor here and dragon drop coating and I also teach them about fishing and I teach them about um open source intelligence as well very young but we're living in this age now where students know more than we do you know U it's a fun Story one of my students they put a passcode on the iPad I didn't teach that I'm like how do you figure that out and theyr their sh so um I try to teach them everything that I know so they're prepared uh for the any other questions I got a question hey

D how's it going doing good that's good I know everyone can hear me but I'll I'll use the microphone so how do you when you work with the uh lower en enforcement how do you deal with uh chain of custody so in regards to chain of custody uh once again once it's out of my hands uh the law enforcement handles it I'm the work but I do know that CH custody is important so that evidence or things aren't do you ever get called in for like uh court cases no no okay all right anyone else all right well thank you again thank you [Applause]