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Unlocking future trends in corporate security, investigations and intelligence We’ll be back in January with plenty of new and interesting INTEL and OSINT stories! A while back one of our customers, a large German cosmetic company, had received threatening emails from an unknown perpetrator. This person threatened to sabotage the company’s supply chain and thus cause a production fallout. The emails where sent from an anonymous email address and we were not able to find any information on the originator through OSINT. Over the course of the next weeks, the perpetrator continued to send threats and demands in various emails. One of the demands was to transfer a large sum of money to a Bitcoin Again, we went looking for information online, trying to track down this Bitcoin account. Once more, we turned up empty handed. We tried every trick in the book, including trying to lure the perpetrator into a trap using phishing emails, which only resulted in him sending the The only consistent information was the Bitcoin wallet address and the name he used to sign the emails. This name was ‘Ray Reardon’. Judging from the content of the emails, we had a hunch that this person might actually be an insider. He apparently had extensive knowledge of the company’s supply chain and internal procedures. Knowing this, we sat down with the company’s security officer and discussed the next steps. Our technical approach using OSINT and even phishing was exhausted and we agreed upon covert investigations within the company. In the first step, the security officer identified everyone that could have the knowledge displayed in the emails. We received a list of eight employees and also some written docu*ents from each of these employees. We compared the docu*ents to the emails, hoping we might find specific phrases, terms or spelling mistakes that match. As with the steps before, this proved inconclusive. The suspects worked in different shifts and the company’s employees had no access to private IT or phones during their worktime. Each