IIT-Kanpur develops AI-powered virtual investigator to fight cybercrime

Kanpur: In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K), has unveiled a groundbreaking virtual system designed to assist the police in combating cybercrime.

This unique initiative involves the deployment of a virtual investigator who will provide guidance to the police, aiding in the identification, capture, and conviction of cybercriminals.

Led by Prof. Manindra Agarwal, the cutting-edge C3iHub at IIT Kanpur has developed AI-backed tools specifically tailored for the Telangana police.

These tools will serve as a comprehensive and systematic guide, leading the police through each stage, from the initial investigation to the successful prosecution of cybercriminals, just like an investigator.

The program will initially be implemented in Telangana and subsequently expanded to other states, intensifying the fight against the escalating threat of cybercrime.

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The system which has not been named yet, has a robust database of all patterns of cybercrimes, which it would automatically classify.

When a crime takes place, the system will direct the police to cases in the past with similar or near identical modus operandi. It would throw up details of people arrested for those crimes and areas from where they have been operating.

"This system will self-analyse and suggest to the police the nature of the information they need to process and gather to trace the people behind the crime," said Agrawal.

The tools developed will even help the police build a solid case against the criminals arrested, he said.

"At present, the Telangana police is the readiest force in terms of infrastructure and trained manpower. It will shortly start using these tools that will be constantly upgraded to pre-empt cybercriminals employing new techniques and technology, After this, technology will be shared with other states," he stated.

C3iHub is into building a cybersecurity ecosystem for the government. It will constantly monitor security vulnerabilities in critical sectors and develop tools to address them at different levels of system architecture.

Other than this, the hub does a cybersecurity audit for the government and provides a security operation control mechanism that allows the user to see information about cyberattacks on servers, flow of malware, among other things, in real time.

With inputs from agencies

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