
Transnational Cyber Intelligence-Driven Cybercrime and Crimeware Analyst
Analyst training for the digital battlefield. Engage scenario-driven simulations against global crimeware actors and disrupt AI-augmented, financially integrated ecosystems with structured methods and Europol-aligned competencies.
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Online · Instructor-Supported · On-Demand Access
Course Length
Self-Paced · ~52 CPE Credits
Audience
Law enforcement, cybercrime analysts, prosecutors, CERT units, cryptocurrency investigators, intelligence professionals
Course Overview
Cybercriminal networks cross borders. Training follows them. Work real-world cases through structured analytic techniques blended with Europol competency frameworks. Track ransomware-as-a-service, infiltrate darknet networks, analyze cross-border laundering, and think like the adversary to stop them.
You Will Master
Cybercrime Intelligence Methodology
Crypto-Enabled Criminal Economies
Cognitive Tradecraft and Structured Thinking
Simulations & Injects
Course Modules
Full Module Outline
# | Module Title | Summary | Assignment / Activity |
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1 | Foundations of Intelligence and OSINT in Transnational Cybercrime | Define intelligence operationally; treat OSINT as structured insight. Focus on reconnaissance phases, linguistic layering, pseudonym tracking, and surface-to-darknet transitions. Launch task-based outputs. | Tool-based OSINT lab and first-stage intelligence report |
2 | Stakeholder Analysis and Strategic Intelligence Framing | Map criminal ecosystems through stakeholder domains and influence modeling. Link actors to infrastructure, illicit finance, and logistics. Build adversary profiles with prioritization. | Stakeholder map and adversary profile |
3 | Data Provenance, Collection Discipline, and Digital OPSEC | Build evidentiary workflows with legal admissibility in mind. Operationalize browser capture, dark web monitoring, timestamping, and persona protection. | OPSEC simulation and chain-of-custody validation |
4 | Cultural Profiling and Behavioral Mapping | Apply Hofstede’s dimensions to regional behavior and cyber activity. Analyze TTPs, deception patterns, and organizational logic across regions. | Behavioral mapping and deception signal detection |
5 | STEMPLES+ Indicators of Change and Predictive Signatures | Track shifts in tradecraft, cadence, and volatility. Build predictive models to spot inflection points before escalation. | Predictive dashboard and volatility mapping |
6 | Adversary Targeting and Actor Ecosystem Mapping | Move from recognition to targeting. Model internal economies and hierarchies. Prepare disruption-ready targeting packages. | Targeting package with hierarchy map |
7 | Hybrid Threats, State Proxies, and Geopolitical Overlay | Assess cybercrime as geopolitical activity. Trace overlaps among ransomware, sanctions evasion, and proxy coordination. | Hybrid threat assessment and attribution simulation |
8 | Structured Analysis and Competing Hypotheses in Cybercrime | Apply ACH, red teaming, and futures methods to incomplete cases. Address mirror imaging and deception signals through structured output. | ACH matrix and futures projection |
9 | Cognitive Tradecraft and Bias Elimination | Confront bias and overconfidence. Calibrate estimative language, write under pressure, and deliver measurable products. | Bias mitigation report and writing drill |
10 | Applied Analysis Types and Behavioral Intelligence Structuring | Apply fourteen analysis types to behavioral patterns. Select models under constraint and brief escalation chains. | Escalation model and method matching |
11 | Intelligence Writing and Operational Report Development | Produce CIIR-style reports, simulation debriefs, and decision briefs. Move from interpretation to recommendation. | CIIR report and live brief simulation |
12 | Insider Threats and Elicitation Methods | Test claims under pressure, force impostors off-script, and treat video calls as forensic tests. Run liveness checks, workspace scans, and stress-tested interviews. | Elicitation lab with interview stressors |
13 | Case Studies | Full-spectrum adversary simulations close the course. Track actors, respond to injects, coordinate across jurisdictions, and deliver debriefs. | Capstone simulation and final debrief |
Tools & Outputs
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Course Specifications
Prerequisites | Basic intelligence tradecraft or prior experience in cyber or financial investigations recommended |
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Learning Objectives | Model adversary ecosystems with fourteen techniques; trace illicit finance; build Hofstede-based cultural profiles; apply bias-mitigation tools; plan OSINT and darknet collection with chain-of-custody; map actor networks and payment paths; integrate SIGINT, OSINT, and AI-derived intelligence; run tabletops; deliver field-ready structured reports. |
Format | Recorded instructor-led video/audio modules on-demand with scheduled live web meetings, office hours, and direct messaging |
Technical Requirements | Internet access; modern browser with extension permissions; ability to install required software on a PC or laptop |
Assignments & Assessments | Scenario exercises per module; inject labs; quizzes on method application; final structured assessment in a full-spectrum simulation |
Resources & Readings | Europol IOCTA 2024 and cTCF materials; AI-augmented writing and mapping templates; darknet forensic packs; 50+ downloadable guides and white papers |
Schedule & Timeline | Self-paced with unlimited on-demand access |
Certification & Credits | Approximately 52 CPE credits and Europol-compatible certification in transnational cybercrime intelligence |
Lead Instructor
Forty years of intelligence experience are built into this online recorded course with the availability for instructor office hours or email/text Q&A
Access on-demand modules, templates, injects, and support. Progress at your pace and deliver operational outcomes.
Your Instructor

Treadstone 71 is a woman and veteran-owned small business exclusively focused on cyber and threat intelligence consulting, services, and training. We are a pure-play intelligence shop.
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Since 2002, Treadstone 71 delivers intelligence training, strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence consulting, and research. We provide a seamless extension of your organization efficiently and effectively moving your organization to cyber intelligence program maturity. Our training, established in 2008, follows intelligence community standards as applied to the ever-changing threat environment delivering forecasts and estimates as intelligence intends. From baseline research to adversary targeted advisories and dossiers, Treadstone 71 products align with your intelligence requirements. We do not follow the create once and deliver many model. We contextually tie our products to your needs. Intelligence is our only business.
- We use intuition, structured techniques, and years of experience.
- We supply intelligence based on clearly defined requirements.
- We do not assign five people to do a job only one with experience.
- We do not bid base bones only to change order you to overspending.
We are known for our ability to:
- Anticipate key target or threat activities that are likely to prompt a leadership decision.
- Aid in coordinating, validating, and managing collection requirements, plans, and activities.
- Monitor and report changes in threat dispositions, activities, tactics, capabilities, objectives as related to designated cyber operations warning problem sets.
- Produce timely, fused, all-source cyber operations intelligence and indications and warnings intelligence products (e.g., threat assessments, briefings, intelligence studies, country studies).
- Provide intelligence analysis and support to designated exercises, planning activities, and time-sensitive operations.
- Develop or recommend analytic approaches or solutions to problems and situations for which information is incomplete or no precedent exists.
- Recognize and mitigate deception in reporting and analysis.
Assess intelligence, recommend targets to support operational objectives. - Assess target vulnerabilities and capabilities to determine a course of action.
- Assist in the development of priority information requirements.
- Enable synchronization of intelligence support plans across the supply chain.
- ...and Review and understand organizational leadership objectives and planning guidance non-inclusively.