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Cyber Operations Could Cause Traumatic Experiences

By Milica D. Djekic

It's quite risky spending your time in cyberspace. This environment could deal with so many traps, holes
and weird openings. In other words, it’s possible only to make a simple click on your screen and arrive at
an very inconvenient location downloading to your IT system the content that could be frightening and
damaging. The cybercrime masterminds would be well-familiar with these scenarios and, indeed, they
would create so sophisticated traps that would not make you get you are already in trouble once you
choose such a path.

Any cybercrime and cyber terrorism operation has a background and it’s important to go deeply into the
past of the offense in order to discover its root. Before they make any move the hackers must know who
would be interested to pay for their services, so they would not touch anyone without the certain need.
The law enforcement cyber crime investigation is not only about arresting the cyber criminals or terrorists,
but rather it’s about understanding the entire scheme and getting who got correlated with whom and what
the higher goals of those campaigns are. So, let’s go deep into the past of any illegal activity because
the hackers would conduct their operation from some location, but they would not sit there and wait for
you to come and catch them. The experience would suggest that within 24 hours after the successful
attack they could get many miles away from their initial base.

On the other hand, the cyber terrorists could operate from some distant region and there is no chance to
find them, so what you only can do is to utilize some kind of cyber warfare operation that would give you

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