The Big Fish

Scenario

Professor has retireved this image which was taken at the time and at the very place of a cyberattack from the dashcam of our suspect’s car. Find the organization(1 word) that was attacked and also figure out when. A big amount of money was stolen in this attack. The figure is XX crore rupees. Flag format: QUESTCON{name_of_organization-year_of_attack-XX}

Solution

The image is named dashcam_capture_20180811. The image shows a dash cam capture and a date 20180811. The date is in the format YYYYMMDD. The date is 2018-08-11.

When we use exiftool to view the metadata of the image, we find the following information:

GPS Latitude                    : 18 deg 32' 25.56" N
GPS Longitude                   : 73 deg 49' 56.34" E
GPS Position                    : 18 deg 32' 25.56" N, 73 deg 49' 56.34" E

The GPS coordinates are 18.540433, 73.832317. We can use these coordinates to find the location of the image. The coordinates are in Pune, Maharashtra, India. The fish is a symbol of the Phishing attack. The organization that was attacked is Cosmos Bank. The year of the attack is 2018. The amount of money stolen is 94 crore rupees.