As the smartphone has become a more significant part of our everyday lives, the potential for the criminally savvy to transition away from sitting behind a laptop to committing offenses on the go is on the rise.
As society’s communication methods have transformed, so criminals have found new ways to encrypt and keep their organizing and committing a crime under the radar.
Mobile applications offering communication solutions and greater encryption are launching all the time.
The challenge for crime analysts, law enforcement, and international counter-intelligence agencies is how to rise to the challenge of finding and tracking cybercrime in mobile app technologies and tracing organized crime origins.
No longer is the dark web the sole preserve of the criminal or threat actor. Since smartphones have developed and become inseparable from our daily lives, criminal activity has transported itself into the communication and activity of mobile apps users, accommodating today’s criminals’ lifestyles.
But counter cybercrime app solutions are being developed to keep abreast of these new challenges and enabling analysts to stay ahead of increased criminal activity on mobile devices and apps.
These technologies and applications serve as a platform for drug exchange, terrorist activity, fake news in the form of propaganda, and human trafficking. Many transpire from well-known in-app groups, channels, and platforms.
Managing a cybercrime investigation has become more accessible thanks to innovative solutions to cope with highly encrypted communication channels used by criminals.
These solutions go beyond discovering data from mobile communication apps by deploying an advanced artificial intelligence layer that helps analysts break down and make sense of the data.
Solutions continue to evolve with the progression of mobile apps’ development to consistently stay one step ahead of criminals and possible communication methods.
Typical forms of cybercrime include theft of online banking data, identity theft, online predatory crime, and unauthorized computer access, alongside severe and even greater concerns like cyberterrorism.
But law enforcement can expose these various illicit activities, fraud to hate crime and drug trafficking. They can also come to understand cybercriminals who use computer technology to access personal information and business trade secrets and use the internet for exploitative or malicious objectives.
Cybercrime investigation tools have been created with an astute awareness of the nature of cybercrime and its messengers: the cybercriminals themselves.
To track them down with greater ease, AI crime prediction software tools can extract targeted data of cybercriminal activity while promptly warning threats.
They can also identify the connections between criminals and detect unusual online behavior. These platforms employ advanced artificial intelligence to recognize patterns and trends, alerting users of harmful threats enabling them to automate cyber investigations and prevent cybercrime.
Security professionals can now connect disparate intelligence data points, creating a rich, colorful, connected, and holistic vision of vulnerabilities, threats, and potential breaches.
Real-time insights from these solutions can also help maintain effective protection of employees, executives, and information – whether at work, home, or anywhere along the way.
Continuous monitoring and indexing of the dark web provides seamless connectivity to thousands of dark web sources and enables analysts to search people and keywords to evaluate and monitor forums and markets.
