Indian government inaugurates first crypto forensics lab

The government of India has inaugurated a Cryptocurrency Forensics Lab, local news outlet The Hindu reported.

The crypto forensics lab is, in fact, a unit of the National Cyber Forensic Lab (NCFL) inaugurated by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday.

According to the report, the NCFL is part of the Union Home Ministry’s Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C). In addition to the lab, Singh also inaugurated Delhi Police’s cybercrime unit ‘CyPAD’.

“To build public trust in a Digital World, we have to make the cyberspace more safe. We will have to bear Zero Tolerance towards cyber crime,” Singh said in a tweet.

The cyber forensic labs include various units focused on specific areas such as Memory Forensics Labs, Image Enhancement Lab, Network Forensics Lab, Malware Forensics Lab, Cryptocurrency Forensics Lab, Damaged Hard Disk and Advanced Mobile Forensics Lab, said M.M. Oberoi, Special CP (Special Cell).

Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik said that this marks the first time that such a dedicated cyber lab has been set up in the country, The Times of India reported.

“We are now equipped with technology to recover data from damaged hard disks, cryptocurrency analysis, malware forensic and data can be retrieved from 33,000 kinds of mobile models available in the market. Cyber experts will train our staff,” Patnaik said.