In this training, class attendees will be familiarized the most common cyber crimes departments are becoming inundated with, and the best response for documenting and investigating them. Attendees will learn how the “dark web” works, the browsers utilized, “dark net” markets, and be provided with the fundamental understanding of cryptocurrency transactions and payment services that incorporate them. The instructor will cover common techniques for “dark web” related narcotics shipments, as well as the means to detect recipients and curtail their deliveries, how to detect “dark web” related overdoses, and the best practices for the scene.

Attendees will be exposed to cutting edge tradecraft regarding the exploitation of “end to end encryption” applications that have become so prevalent in the realm of “dark web” narcotics, and how to go “undercover” on the “dark web”. Moreover, the instructor will share his firsthand experiences creating multiple investigations and operations that helped take down sellers of narcotics but the markets themselves.