We are a non-profit group of public interest technologists working within and for civil society. We're a hacker collective working on research and development, open tools, and public-interest defense against spyware, malware, and digital repression.
Open-source Android evidence collection and structured device triage. WARD helps people preserve useful artefacts and identify activity that needs deeper review.
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Consent-based remote evidence collection for cases where an investigator cannot reach the device. MESH is designed to be self-hosted by the communities using it.
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BARGHEST is a security research and development team. Our offensive security and exploitation research informs the tools we build in house. We want to decentralize forensic capability so communities can investigate spyware without depending on big tech, closed services, prestigious organizations, or a small number of distant experts.
We hack software to understand how it fails. Our work includes penetration testing, vulnerability analysis, reverse engineering, and exploitation research, with responsible disclosure when we find security flaws.
Our security research feeds directly into our software. Our in-house engineers turn what we learn about attacks and spyware into open-source forensic tools. Development is never outsourced or subgranted.
Forensic capability should not be controlled by a few companies, governments, or specialist labs. We publish tools and methods that others can inspect, operate locally, and adapt without sending sensitive evidence to a central gatekeeper.