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Dark Web/Crypto Analyst

Dark Web/Crypto Analyst

CompanyKACE
LocationArlington, VA, USA
Salary$Not Provided – $Not Provided
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelJunior, Mid Level

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university; or demonstrate relevant work experience as required by assigned project or initiative.
  • Ability to evaluate information and make decisions/recommendations based on findings.
  • Experience in open or all source intelligence gathering and analysis.
  • Ability to assess data and attribute risk values.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team with proven ability to influence across functions and disciplines.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and tasks with competing priorities and meet deliverables.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills with experience in facilitating training, participating in meetings or presentations, and producing intelligence reports.
  • Advanced in Microsoft Excel with the ability to create and execute macros, create and modify pivot tables, utilize VLOOKUP, if/then formulas, conditional formatting, and more.
  • Advanced Oracle/Teradata SQL skills.
  • Experience with cryptocurrency tracing and analysis including the use of paid commercial tools.
  • Familiarity with United States Postal Service and United States Postal Inspection Service databases.
  • Demonstrated experience in using cyber intelligence tools and software tools to actively search and mine the publicly available Internet and the dark net/deep web.
  • Advanced understanding of the methods used by cyber-criminals to hide themselves on the Internet, how the cyber-criminals conduct online business and what are the various marketplaces and forums the cyber- criminals operate within.
  • Demonstrated experience with visual tools such as Qlik, MicroStrategy, Tableau and/or i2 Analyst Notebook.

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate Internet information from social media, chats, forums, dark net, TOR network, news feeds, internet relay chats and other sources of data openly available on the Internet.
  • Perform a prioritized assessment of the data to identify the most critical and reliable data in order to identify bitcoins, locations, accounts, services, travels, email addresses, IP addresses and other pattern of life data in an effort to determine physical attribution of an Internet identity.
  • Provide intelligence and investigative reports which represent the steps taken, the data sources reviewed, and the conclusions drawn from the evaluation of the Internet information.
  • Use technology solutions to actively search, analyze, and prioritize the various marketplaces and cyber-criminals to identify high value targets, and to respond to Requests for Assistance/Information for USPIS investigations, responsibilities, and areas of concern.
  • Use tools, both paid and open source, to conduct blockchain analysis, trace the flow of funds, and complete comprehensive reports with their findings.
  • Responsible for conducting analyses and research and documenting and reporting analytical results using tabular, pictorial, or graphical techniques.
  • Provide summary and detailed results to various levels of an organization in formats which are easy to understand, showing conclusions and relationships.

Preferred Qualifications

    No preferred qualifications provided.