๐ฆ Video Games Forensics - Steam
Video games have become an integral part of our culture, providing entertainment and social opportunities. Unfortunately, criminals have also begun to take advantage of modern video games and their ever-growing capabilities to conduct illegal activities. Organized crime, hate spread, and pedophilia have been documented occurring within games, opening up the potential to a world of cybercrime.
Digital forensics on the Steam application can be especially useful for law enforcement in tracking down and prosecuting these cybercriminals. By investigating video game applications like Steam, digital footprints that can be used to link individuals to games, transactions, and even other players. Once these links are established, they can then used to build a case against the perpetrators. In this article, the reader will learn about some artifacts that can give releavant information left on a disk during a post-mortem analysis.
Note : All of the information about the investigated user displayed in the following findings are redacted.