The Emerging Cyberthreat: Cybercrime Investigations & Digital Evidence

Cybercrime is often thought of as activities such as network intrusions, ransomware, and distributed denial of service attacks. However, it also encompasses any criminal activity that is enabled through the use of a computer or that yields digital evidence, such as child exploitation, human trafficking, fraud, identity theft, drug sales, and even terrorism. As the world becomes more interconnected and further tethered through the “Internet of Things,” crimes of this nature are rapidly expanding. Many jurisdictions are reporting that almost all crimes they investigate require some degree of cyber support.