Title: Cyber Crime Investigation: Tools and Techniques explained
Headings: Cyber Crime Investigation Tools and Techniques Explained
Cyber Crime Investigation Tools and Techniques Explained
What is a cybercrime investigation?
Who conducts cybercrime investigations?
Criminal justice agencies
National security agencies
Private security agencies
Cybercrime investigation techniques
Top 10 cybercrime investigation and forensic tools
SIFT Workstation
The Sleuth Kit
X-Ways Forensics
CAINE
Digital Forensics Framework
Oxygen Forensic Detective
Open Computer Forensics Architecture
Bulk Extractor
ExifTool
SurfaceBrowser™
Summary

Content: What is a cybercrime investigation? Before jumping into the “investigation” part, let’s go back to the basics: a digital crime or cybercrime is a crime that involves the usage of a computer, phone or any other digital device connected to a network. These electronic devices can be used for two things: perform the cybercrime (that is, launch a cyber attack), or act as the victim, by receiving the attack from other malicious sources. Therefore, a cybercrime investigation is the process of investigating, analyzing and recovering critical forensic digital data from the networks involved in the attack—this could be the Internet and/or a local network—in order to identify the authors of the digital crime and their true intentions. Cybercrime investigators must be experts in computer science, understanding not only software, file systems and operating systems, but also how networks and hardware work. They must be knowledgeable enough to determine how the interactions between these components occur, to get a full picture of what happened, why it happened, when it happened, who performed the cybercrime itself, and how victims can protect themselves in the future against these types of cyber threats. Who conducts cybercrime investigations? Criminal justice agencies
Criminal justice agencies are the operations behind cybercrime prevention campaigns and the investigation, monitoring and prosecution of digital criminals.