Evidence uncovered by the two companies will help law enforcement crack down on human trafficking and other cybercrimes
SpyCloud, the leading account takeover prevention and fraud investigations company, and Zero Trafficking, a solution provider fighting human trafficking, announced a partnership to support law enforcement teams investigating human trafficking cases involving an estimated 40 million victims worldwide.
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“Billions of data assets per year are exposed in breaches, including assets belonging to criminals,” said Jason Lancaster, Head of Investigations at SpyCloud. “By drawing on the 100+ billion assets SpyCloud has recovered from third-party breaches, Zero Trafficking can piece together criminals’ digital breadcrumbs to uncover the identities of specific adversaries engaging in human trafficking activity.”
Zero Trafficking intercepts customer outreach and recruitment efforts of human traffickers for the initial identification of organized human trafficking groups. The partnership with SpyCloud allows Zero Trafficking to unmask true identities and discover the non-customer-facing components of human trafficking networks.
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Just like legal businesses that operate in various industries, different sectors in cybercrime have varying levels of security surrounding their operations. Human traffickers tend to have the weakest defense. Because multiple criminal organizations often use the same facilitators or “vendors” to conduct trafficking operations, once investigators have infiltrated one human trafficking operation, they could utilize the compromised supply chain to track down and collect info from additional criminals perpetrating other forms of cybercrime.
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