Introduction

With the increase in the number of crimes in cyberspace, the detection, investigation and apprehension of cybercriminals have also been comparatively difficult. With changing methods and interdisciplinary approaches, there can be assistance to the criminal justice system.

Profiling is a systemic linking of physical, behavioural, or psychological characteristics to specific offences and their use as a basis for making law enforcement decisions. The goal of profiling is to aid the criminal justice system in battling against crime, to provide a social and psychological assessment of the offender; a psychological evaluation of belongings found in the possession of the offender.

Criminal Profiling, an investigative approach, is based on the assumption that the crime scene provides details about the offence and the offender. The term “offender profiling” was introduced in the 1970s, linked to the activities of the FIB analysis unit. Initially, criminal profiling was used for serial murders, but the boundaries of research expanded and are now linked to various criminal offences such as rape, torture, murder, terrorism, cybercrime, etc. Historically the prominent uses of criminal profiling involved famous cases such as Jack the Ripper and Adolf Hitler. In the criminal profiling timeline, the investigative tool - Profiling had not been introduced in a courtroom until 1998 (FBI).

Cyber Crime is a broad term that covers any criminal activity that involves a computer or the Internet. People who commit cybercrime can be termed Cybercriminals. Website hijacking, phishing, credential attack, malware attack, DDoS, information theft, etc. are all broad types of cyber-attacks. The cost of a cyber-attack is huge. For example, the Denial of Service attack (DoS) attack in 2000 caused huge financial damage to companies such as Amazon, eBay, Dell, and CNN.

Virtual Crime Scene: The computer and the Internet can be seen as virtual crime scenes, respectively. Steps taken at a physical crime scene can also be associated with a virtual environment.

A Cyber trail is considered a virtual version of a signature left at a crime scene. Such evidence lead us to link the suspect to a computer crime/ virtual crime scene. The possibility of links between cybercrime investigations will also reduce the statistic of unsolved cyber cases. Investigators can connect each attack in the separate companies to one hacker/hacker group due to the cyber-trail they might leave behind. Cybercrime cases that involve multiple victims tend to leave a cyber-trail that can accidentally connect their work with another cybercrime investigatio