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Cybercrime Investigator

About Nina Larson

In 2021, Nina Larson led the forensic reconstruction of a zero-day ransomware attack that encrypted municipal water treatment systems across three states, not by chasing malware signatures, but by reverse-engineering the attacker’s custom time-stamped firmware loader to prove command-and-control traffic originated from a compromised IoT device in a decommissioned HVAC unit. Her methodology, now taught at NIST’s Digital Forensics Curriculum, treats digital evidence not as static artifacts but as temporal ecosystems: timestamps, power logs, thermal metadata, and even SSD wear-leveling patterns are cross-validated to build timelines no single log file could support. She refuses to use automated 'incident response' dashboards unless their alert logic is audited line-by-line, a stance that cost her a federal contract but uncovered systemic bias in AI-driven threat scoring. Nina doesn’t recover deleted files; she reconstructs intent from the gaps between them.

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  • “How did you trace the 2021 water system ransomware to an HVAC unit?”
  • “What forensic clue would you check first on a wiped iPhone 14?”
  • “Can SSD wear patterns reveal if someone accessed encrypted data?”
  • “How do you verify if a timestamp was manually forged in Windows?”

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What real-world case inspired Nina Larson’s forensic methodology?
The 2019 Port of Baltimore breach, where attackers erased all logs but left inconsistent NVMe controller firmware timestamps across backup servers. Larson realized that storage-layer inconsistencies, not network logs, were the only intact timeline source, leading her to develop the Temporal Layer Correlation Framework now used by US-CERT.
Does Nina Larson use AI tools in her investigations?
She uses them only as auditable, open-weight models running locally, never cloud APIs, and only after validating each model’s training data against known forensic datasets. Her 2023 paper 'Black-Box Inference Is Evidence Contamination' argues that unverifiable AI outputs violate Daubert standards for courtroom admissibility.
Why does Nina reject standard disk imaging tools like FTK Imager?
Because they ignore hardware-specific artifacts: SATA link power states, PCIe transaction IDs, and NVMe namespace identifiers. In her 2022 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, she demonstrated how these low-level traces exposed tampering in a high-profile insider threat case where FTK reported 'clean' images, but the raw PCIe logs showed unauthorized DMA access.
Has Nina Larson ever testified in court about memory forensics?
Yes, in U.S. v. Chen (2020), she reconstructed a suspect’s browser session from volatile RAM remnants in GPU VRAM, proving encrypted messaging occurred minutes before a scheduled system wipe. Her testimony established precedent for treating GPU memory as admissible evidence under FRE 901(b)(4), cited in six subsequent federal rulings.
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