Abstract

Cybercrime investigations are a crucial aspect of law enforcement and cybersecurity efforts in the digital age. These investigations focus on identifying, tracking, and prosecuting individuals or groups responsible for various forms of online criminal activities, such as hacking, identity theft, fraud, and more. They often involve skilled investigators, digital forensics experts, and collaboration with international agencies to gather digital evidence, trace the origins of cyberattacks, and bring cybercriminals to justice. The rapid evolution of technology and the sophistication of cyber threats continually challenge investigators to adapt and employ advanced techniques to combat cybercrime effectively. The major objective of this research is to to know the challenges faced by crime investigators when dealing with sophisticated hacking techniques, to analyze current trends and emerging patterns in cybercrime investigation, to analyze the ethical and legal issue in investigating cybercrime. This research follows an empirical type of research and sampling method used in this survey is a convenient sampling method. The independent variables like age, gender, education, occupation and dependent variables like major challenges faced by cybercrime investigators when dealing with sophisticated hacking techniques. Staying updated with evolving cyber threats is a major challenge for investigators. From this research it is found out that technology is the major challenge in investigating cybercrime and the legal issue is that the privacy of individuals is affected while investigating their profile . Balancing the need for investigation with individual privacy rights remained a challenge, prompting the development of protocols for handling personal data. Educating the public about cyber threats, safe online practices, and how to report cybercrimes to law enforcement.

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