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Digital forensics company Exterro has told Axios its FTK Suite platform was used as part of the FBI's investigation into the attempted assassination at this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner, with agents relying on the tool during the roughly 48 hours between the attack and the filing of charges against Cole Thomas Allen.
The disclosure is the clearest public example yet of how law enforcement agencies are weaving AI into fast-moving criminal investigations.
What Digital Forensics Means for Investigators Digital forensics is the discipline of collecting, preserving, and analyzing electronic evidence — files, messages, metadata, and images recovered from seized devices or accounts — in a form that can hold up in court.
The discipline matters because modern suspects leave data trails across phones, cloud accounts, financial records, and surveillance systems, and sifting through that volume manually takes time investigators often do not have.
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