Project summary

This project aims to automate the process of linking cryptocurrency payments to crime in real time. Cryptocurrencies present a fast-evolving global challenge for crime/ intelligence attribution. The novel investigative toolkit facilitates law enforcement agencies to disrupt suspicious/ ransomware payment. The outcomes include an innovative technique to extract feature vectors to defeat anonymity from multi-blockchain networks; a new machine learning tool to fuse streaming mixed datasets and reconstruct provenance; an attribution mechanism which informs analyst and policy makers to improve national security. This benefits Australia as a world-leader in investigating crypto related criminal activities and creating usable evidence across laws.

Grant Value: $590,843.00 administered by Griffith University.


Partner universities

Griffith UniversityThe University of Melbourn

Project members

Lead investigators:

Professor Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy

Professor
School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University

Professor Ryan Ko

Chair & Director - Cyber Security
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Centre Director of UQ Cyber Research Centre
UQ Cyber Research Centre

Professor Marimuthu Palaniswami

Professor
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne