A framework to detect cybercrime in the virtual environment

A wide gap in knowledge currently exists as to what constitutes Cybercrime money laundering and terrorism financing behaviour - in the virtual environments. Until now, no detailed behaviour maps, rule bases or models have been designed which describe and validate what money laundering and terrorism financing in virtual environments might look like if they were to occur. Besides that, no effective software tools are exist to systematically detect money laundering and terrorism financing in virtual environments. This paper demonstrates the need for suitable approaches, tools and techniques which can be used to detect money laundering and terrorism financing in virtual environments and introduces a framework which aims to establish a comprehensive set of behaviour maps, rule bases and models to help in the fight against organised cybercrime.