Researching of Cybercrimes: Modern Trends, Special Knowledge and Peculiarities of Engaging a Specialist

Abstract

Features of criminal activity in cyberspace are considered, the dynamics and structure of cybercrimes, the specifics of the use of special knowledge during the investigation of cybercrimes are analyzed. Typical tasks of extracting computer information about economic activity are considered in the context of the possibilities for their solution by various subjects of special knowledge. The boundaries of the participation of an investigator (interrogator), a specialist in the field of economics and a specialist in the field of computer technology, have been determined. It is substantiated that at present, the field of computer technologies has passed from the sphere of special to the sphere of generally known knowledge and can be used directly by the investigator to solve the problems of contextual information retrieval and identifying local databases of accounting programs. It is recommended to involve a specialist in the field of computer technology only if the examination carried out by the investigator did not give a positive result. It is argued that the optimal procedural form of using special knowledge for the purpose of searching and detecting computer information in the course of investigating economic crimes is the participation in the investigative examination of a specialist in the field of economics together with a specialist in the field of computer technology.