Cognitive Cyber Crimes in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

Preface

The rapid evolution of digital technologies has transformed the landscape of cybersecurity, creating both unprecedented opportunities and critical vulnerabilities. Among these, cognitive cybercrimes—attacks that exploit human cognition through artificial intelligence (AI), neuroscience, and advanced cryptographic methods—stand out as some of the most complex and rapidly emerging threats. Unlike traditional hacking, these attacks manipulate perception, decision-making, and even neural signals, thereby expanding the battlefield of cybersecurity into the realm of the human mind. Cognitive Cyber Crimes in the Era of Artificial Intelligence introduces the concept of NeuroCryptic Forensics, a groundbreaking framework that integrates AI, neuroscience, and cryptography to investigate and mitigate AI-driven psychological manipulations, deepfake-induced fraud, brainwave data theft, and neuro-hacking. This edited volume brings together leading perspectives to explore multiple dimensions of these threats, including forensic techniques for investigating AI-powered crimes, cryptographic safeguards for cognitive security, vulnerabilities in brain-computer interfaces, AI-generated misinformation campaigns, social engineering in the age of machine intelligence, and the dark web exploitation of neuroscientific advancements. It further examines the role of quantum computing in building resilient defenses and presents pathways for developing AI-enhanced forensic tools to secure digital ...