Attributing global digital payments linked to crime

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.