Belkasoft Releases Belkasoft X v2.11, Expanding AI-Powered Investigations And Evidence Extraction Capabilities
Belkasoft unveiled Belkasoft X version 2.11, boosting its digital forensics platform with AI‑driven topic detection via the offline BelkaGPT assistant, expanded mobile and cloud data acquisition, and broader artifact extraction. The update adds iOS 17‑18.7.1 agent‑based acquisition, new Telegram cloud workflows, and revamped Microsoft 365 and Google service integrations. BelkaGPT now offers unlimited artifact references, multilingual analysis, and speech‑to‑text conversion through a dedicated hub. These enhancements aim to reduce manual review time while preserving offline, secure processing for investigators.
When The Job Comes Home: The Impact On Families
Paul Gullon‑Scott shares his personal experience of how years of digital forensic investigations, especially exposure to child sexual abuse material, have infiltrated his home life. He describes hypervigilance, irritability, and emotional numbness that persisted after work, and how silence meant...
The Cloud Attachment Problem: Why Modern Email Investigations Are Missing Critical Evidence
Modern email investigations increasingly encounter cloud‑hosted attachments that appear as hyperlinks to OneDrive, SharePoint, or Google Drive rather than traditional MIME files. Standard export workflows capture only the URL, leaving the actual document unretrieved and risking loss of the correct...
How Distressing Material Shapes Investigator Well-Being
The podcast spotlights Dr. Fazeelat Duran’s first longitudinal study of secondary investigators and analysts in UK law enforcement, tracking their mental health from onboarding through 18 months. While participants reported little distress at six months, the study documented sharp rises...
Speed Up Your Video Redaction With Amped Replay
Amped Replay is a forensic video player designed for non‑technical police staff, offering drag‑and‑drop support for over 300 formats and offline AI‑assisted redaction of faces, bodies, vehicles and licence plates. The tool combines traditional pixel‑based tracking with machine‑learning detection, allowing...
Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, May 11 2026
The May 11 2026 Digital Forensics Jobs Round‑Up lists more than 40 new DFIR openings across the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Singapore, Ireland and South Africa. Positions range from internships and junior analyst roles to senior consultants and directors, covering...
Eric Fookes, Founder & CEO, Fookes Software
Eric Fookes, a geologist‑turned entrepreneur, founded Swiss‑based Fookes Software in 1996 and later launched Aid4Mail, now a leading email forensics and eDiscovery solution. Since its 2005 debut, the product has adapted to three major shifts: migration of email to cloud...
Forensic Focus Digest, May 08 2026
Magnet Forensics announced the launch of Magnet AI, an artificial‑intelligence layer built into its Magnet One digital‑forensics suite. The new feature automatically extracts relevant artifacts, generates intelligent insights, and enables instant evidence sharing across agencies. The rollout follows a wave...
AI-Generated CSAM: Staying Ahead Of The Threat
The Internet Watch Foundation reported a record 312,000 confirmed CSAM cases, with AI‑generated, photo‑realistic abuse videos soaring by more than 26,000% in a single year. Law‑enforcement investigators now confront deepfake content that cannot be detected through traditional hash‑matching, forcing a...
Magnet Forensics Unveils Magnet AI, Advancing The Next Era Of Digital Investigative Intelligence
Magnet Forensics announced Magnet AI, an intelligence engine that powers new AI‑driven features across its platform. The rollout includes Intelligent Search, which uses natural‑language queries to surface relevant media in seconds, and Intelligent Insights, which generates structured investigative summaries, suggested...
Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, April 2026
The April 2026 Digital Forensics Jobs Round‑Up lists over 40 new DFIR openings across the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Singapore and Ireland. Positions range from entry‑level analyst roles to senior consultancy and director‑level posts, with many remote opportunities...
Digital Forensics Round-Up, April 22 2026
The Digital Forensics Round‑Up highlights a surge of tool upgrades—including ALEAPP 3.4.1, iLEAPP 2.3.1, Arsenic 3.0 and UAC 3.3.0—adding mobile parsers, iOS backup navigation, and Unix artifacts. Emil Opachevsky of Cyincore urges auditable AI in DFIR, stressing tamper‑evident logs and human oversight. Research reveals...
Magnet Forensics Acquires V2 Forensics, Expanding Leadership In Drone-Related Digital Investigations
Magnet Forensics announced the acquisition of V2 Forensics, the creator of Disero, an industry‑first forensic solution for unmanned aerial systems. The deal expands Magnet’s end‑to‑end digital investigation platform to include purpose‑built drone forensics alongside its mobile, computer, cloud and vehicle...
Belkasoft X Brings AI-Powered Speech Recognition To DFIR Investigations
Belkasoft X now embeds BelkaGPT, an AI assistant that automatically transcribes audio and video recordings with timestamps, supporting European, Asian and Semitic languages. The system can run speech‑to‑text on new data sources or selected items, then lets investigators query the...
Emil Opachevsky, Founder, Cyincore
Emil Opachevsky, founder of Cyincore, is building an AI‑native forensics platform that automates the mechanical portions of digital investigations. He notes that analysts currently spend about 80% of their time on repetitive tasks such as parsing evidence and correlating data...