INFORMATION WEAPONS AS AN ELEMENT OF CRIMINALISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF CYBERCRIMES

The scientific article has an independent and creative character, the goals and objectives of which are achieved. Continuing research on the topic “Doctrinal provisions of procedural, search and cognitive, tactical actions in the investigation of crimes that caused the death of military personnel through the prism of practical innovations in military-applied criminalistics„ (Ryvkin S. Yu.), the features of investigating cybercrimes, including in armed formations, are noted and analyzed. The article examines information weapons as an element of criminalistic characteristics of cybernetic crimes. The concepts and essential structures of cyber digital weapons, the possibility of making additions to the regulatory framework for the investigation of cyber attacks, and foreign experience in the investigation of cybernetic crimes are considered. The article notes that the President of the Russian Federation Putin V. V. aims to develop prevention and reduce the use of cybernetic tools to protect the interests of the Fatherland, and the need to counter information weapons. The article cites the opinion of the head of the psychological service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, V. V. Barabanshchikova that the new challenges for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are: hybrid wars, cyber attacks, international terrorist organizations. The authors share the views of cybersecurity specialist Sergey Gordeychik on the possibility of destabilizing infrastructure objects managed automatically through cyber attacks. The study concludes that information weapons should be considered both in the narrow sense-tools and means of committing cybernetic crimes, and in a broad sense – a system of criminally significant information and technological complexes and tools used in crimes committed using high technologies. The authors emphasize that cyber digital weapons have the following characteristics: stealth; offensive; individual selectivity to software; exist in a cybernetic environment; propagate their action through information technology networks. The types of cyber digital weapons are: passive and active. The complex of search and cognitive actions in the investigation of cybernetic crimes includes inspection of the scene, objects, documents, seizure of electronic media and copying information from them. At the subsequent stages of the investigation, it is proposed to perform interrogations, assign forensic cybernetic examinations, check the evidence on the spot, and, if necessary, conduct an investigative experiment.

cyber crimes, information technologies, cyber digital weapons, cyber attacks , hybrid wars, cybersecurity, cyber environments, computer-network and forensic cyber expertise, inspection of items, seizure of electronic data carriers and copying of information from them.

Ryvkin S. Yu., Huseynov T. A. Information weapons as an element of criminalistic characteristics of cybercrimes. Business. Education. Law, 2020, no. 2, pp. 264–268. DOI: 10.25683/VOLBI.2020.51.263.