A unique AI-backed cybercrime investigator tool TTPs (tactics, techniques and procedures)-has been developed to aid the police in its fight against online attacks targeting humans, like insurance fraud, online matrimonial fraud and so on.
Scientists from I-hub NTIHAC foundation (c3ihub) at IIT Kanpur with support from Department of Science and Technology (DST) have developed the tool which has cybercrime investigation framework that can help in tracking and classifying cybercrimes identifying chain of evidences required to solve the case and in mapping evidences onto the framework to convict criminals.
With advancing technology, cyber scammers are also following new ways to target people and real money. Some of the common cyber frauds include identity theft, phishing scams, credit card fraud, romance scams, investment fraud and more. According to reports, cybercrime incidents cause one crore/day loss in many states. Mostly, women, aged and poor people are targeted resulting in loss of entire life savings.
Usually, it has been noted that the number of cybercrime investigations has been significantly lesser than the number of cybercrime reports in India. “The investigation of such cybercrimes depends on the FIR narratives by the victims who usually have extremely low cyber literacy. Hence their narratives frequently mislead or distract investigators. Victims frequently do not maintain contact after reporting the incident, which makes tracking the crime even more difficult,” explained an official from the DST.
The investigator will extract key points from the victim's FIR, provide sufficient information on the reported cybercrime to categorize it systematically and exhaustively, indicate the steps to follow based on pre-existing crime paths, map evidence to the steps taken to decide the following step and finally conclude and convict criminals.
No comprehensive framework exists for cybercrime incident response till now.