Investigating Cybercrime … Not Quite Yet!

Unfortunately, Cybercrime has one of the best chances of gaining reward, and in not getting caught. In many cases, especially in cryptocurrency investigations, the rewards can be extremely high, and the chances of going to prison is almost zero … the perfect crime!

One of the greatest issues is that front-line police officers are generally not trained to generally cope with the complexity of the information that is used within a cybercrime investigation. And so if you go to a local police office, and report that someone had stolen your Bitcoins, they would probably look at you with a blank stare.

“Where were they, when they were stolen?”, “They weren’t anywhere, they were on the blockchain!”,

“Didn’t you keep them in a safe?”, “No! They don’t exist!”,

“Then how could they be stolen?”, “Someone hacked by private key!”,

“Where did you drop that?”, “I didn’t drop it, it is was in my wallet”,

“Can I see your wallet?”, “It’s on my phone”,

“Can we get fingerprints of your wallet?” … “Oh, it doesn’t matter!”.

For most people, these would seem like sensible questions, and all part of a traditional investigation process. We thus urgently need to training our front-line police officers to understand a new…