All of the articles in this proceedings volume have been presented at the ICFACT-2025 during 22-12-2025 and 23-12-2025 in Mallareddy University, Hyderabad These articles have been peer reviewed by the members of the Editorial committee and Technical committee and approved by the Editor-in-Chief, who...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a discipline under computer science, focusing on producing systems competent enough to accomplish assignments that demand for the human intellect. AI basically, enables computers or devices to work and think like humans. It is being used in day-to-day life and is assisting...

Modern Human Trafficking (HT) exploits the seamless anonymity of digital platforms, migrating the crime scene from the street to the server. This transformation presents a critical forensic paradox: exploitation is ubiquitous, yet evidence is vast, volatile, and encrypted. Traditional manual review methods...

The rapid progress of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has enabled highly realistic facial manipulations, creating a serious threat to the integrity of digital evidence. Modern deepfake detectors, particularly convolutional neural network (CNN) based architectures, report strong performance on...

Maintaining the integrity of forensic evidence is important in criminal investigations and judicial proceedings. The traditional methods used for detection of tampering, like the seals and security bags, are vulnerable to some kind of failure and can even be bypassed. This creates a risk to the chain...

The dark web is a hidden part of the internet that provides anonymity and privacy to users by masking their identities through multiple layers of encryption. This structural nature enables it to function as a covert platform for various illicit activities. Recent data indicate that stolen and compromised...

In rapid-changing digital world, cybercrime has grown into a worldwide danger that ignores borders, cultures, or laws. Because people now rely heavily on linked systems, getting insight into what drives hackers mentally is a key to building smarter defenses, responses, and probes. The research looks...

The Dark Web is a overlay network that requires a specific software in order to access its content. This Darknet is usually used for illicit activities, which mostly are detrimental to the society, promoting civil liberties that cannot be tracked due to layered encrypted system. This paper examines the...

Forensic neuroimaging increasingly relies on precise segmentation of white‑matter lesions in MRI to support legal investigations and clinical interpretation. This paper introduces IA3D‑IO (Integrating Advanced 3D-Imaging and Optimization), a novel framework that integrates advanced three‑dimensional...

MRI is widely used for diagnosing brain tumors, yet accurate isolation and localization of tumor regions remain challenging. Existing methods often perform segmentation or localization in isolation, neglecting the combined forensic-style traceability of tumor regions in a hybrid framework that links...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in digital forensic investigations is reshaping evidence analysis, and decision-making. However, the readiness of emerging forensic professionals to adopt these technologies remains underexplored. This cross-sectional study has investigated the awareness, acceptance, and...

The recent rise of artificial intelligence has enabled new age cybercrimes, which include different AI-based crimes like automated phishing, deep fakes, voice swapping, and others. So, it is very important to understand how netizens recognize and respond to these crimes in recent time. In this cross-sectional...

Radar enabled IoT devices are becoming common in homes, vehicles, and public areas, creating a new form of forensic evidence: continuous, unintentionally generated RF patterns that reveal presence, movement, and even physiological signals. This paper proposes a radar focused IoT forensics approach that...

Artificial intelligence (AI) now mediates digital communication in ways that reshape human behavior. Classical cyberpsychology theories—including Space Transition Theory (STT), Online Disinhibition Effect (ODE), the Proteus Effect, and the SIDE model—were conceptualized primarily for human–human interactions....

This study presents a comprehensive analysis on the re-construction of crime scene by multiple inputs sources; using Colmap. Which mainly focuses on the basis of LiDAR data, notes, motion sensors, video footage, images from the crime scene. Investigation totally relies on examination, observation and...

Digital forensic methodologies and tools have become a crucial part for investigation of cybercrimes. Digital forensics experts usually follow a common workflow and use known methodologies and tools while investigating a case. Attackers and cybercriminals are aware of which methodologies are used in...

The dark web has emerged as the center of several online crimes in recent times such as distribution of illegal drugs, ransomware, human trafficking, and financial crimes. In order to carry out such crimes, the dark web markets tend to utilize cryptocurrency, because it is decentralized and has the perceived...

Artificial intelligence is a domain which is constantly evolving in various fields. The recent advances in AI have given rise to voice cloning technologies which produce voices that sound exactly like human speech. These are highly realistic and common man cannot easily distinguish between the generated(cloned)...

As more resources go virtually(online), we also need ways to prove that are safe, dependable and easy to use. Now-a-days normally passwords, cookies, PINs all the credentials are being hacked and stolen by the attackers not only this but biometrics such as fingerprints, face recognition which are being...

In the current era of Digital Forensics, evidence collection and gathering information related to the crime, victim and the attacker is crucial, these evidences can be available at the scene of crime or in the larger databases like the Internet. The data which is present in the internet about a person...

The advancement of drones has significantly expanded their application in the field of digital forensics through the integration of thermal camera technology. The thermal cameras mount on drones to detect heat signatures. The thermal cameras are highly effective for identifying human presence and helpful...

Deep learning techniques have brought a revolution to digital media synthesis that can generate hyper realistic manipulated content, called deepfakes. Earlier image manipulation techniques included face morphing and manual compositing operated through basic geometric and pixel level processes, which...

The rapid adoption of digital payments particularly India’s Unified payments Interface (UPI) QR- based acceptance, and mobile wallets has produced dramatic convenience gains and equally rapid growth in fraud. This review synthesizes recent literature, incident reports and forensic practice to (1) characterize...

Block-chain technology has evolved from its application in cryptocurrencies to become a widely accepted digital technology in various applications and fields. The major aspects of Blockchain technology are that they render trustworthy and reliability for applications without requiring intermediaries...

Cybercrime has now been enhanced to be more than a digital mischief, but instead it is an international criminal ecosystem. The proliferating cloud infrastructure, the mobile technology, and the artificial intelligence have not only expanded the attack area but also enabled the threat actors to operate...

The growing level of sophistication of artificial intelligence has made it possible to create highly realistic synthetic media, also known as deepfakes, which are posing significant limitations to the admissibility and reliability of digital evidences. Deepfakes involving audio, video, and visual content...

The rapid advancement of deepfake technology has made it increasingly challenging to distinguish between real and manipulated digital content, raising significant concerns for public trust, privacy, and security. While detection methods have progressed to identify forgeries generated by GANs and diffusion...

Open-source intelligence (OSINT) pipelines can gather and connect huge amounts of publicly available data, but they still don’t have a formal way to show the probabilistic reasoning and intuitive heuristics that human analysts use when they look at evidence and get information. This paper presents Beyond...

Social media has come to be as an essential source of digital evidence in modern investigations but is also a major platform for Cyber crimes such as online harassment, identity misuse, financial fraud, and misinformation. In many cases, perpetrators attempt to conceal their activities by deleting posts,...

The rapid shift in deepfake generation from Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to advanced Diffusion Models has made many traditional detection methods ineffective. As synthetic media becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish from real content, the detectors’ inability to generalize across architectures...

In today’s digital world the dark web has transformed cybercrime by creating spaces where traditional forensic techniques are unsuccessful due to encryption and the absence of obvious digital evidence. This research states the concept of forensic tranquillity, the unique investigative obstacle posed...

With the rapid increase in drone usage for both legitimate and criminal activities, digital forensic analysts face growing challenges in preserving, authenticating, and verifying evidence collected from UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles)[3][6]. By using drones as evidence, there can be many other challenges,...

In India, end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging apps are widely used for criminal, business, and personal communication. These apps include both popular local clients and international platforms. E2EE protects user privacy, but it also makes legitimate digital investigations more difficult. The forensic...

Medical imaging workflows vary widely across regions and hospital systems, shaped by infrastructure maturity, pace of digital transformation, and the extent of cloud and AI integration. Hospitals face substantial barriers when trying to transition to integrated operational and security workflows for...

Today, as of 2025, the focus of the Internet is on digital Assets Predicated on Blockchain Technology (BCT). The BCT is a cryptocurrency technology combining cryptographic technology and decentralised information technology (P2P) as part of its basic operation. By providing an extensive systematic literature...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a disruptive element in predominant education, as it considerably affects the process of learners, their evaluation, and professional readiness. Scientific, forensic science, and cyber education fields are some of the areas where AI-powered systems are becoming...

Polymorphic Malware analysis has become a critical problem in Cyber Security and application of Machine Learning to the same is proving to be very useful as traditional signature based methods are failing. The malware is evolving continuously, so the machine learning algorithms being used should be good...

Cybersecurity faces an ongoing and quickly changing challenge from malicious software (malware). Usually, traditional methods of detection rely on static or dynamic analysis methods, neither of which provide complete protection against all versions of malware. With static analysis, malware characteristics...

Cyberbullying has emerged as a critical challenge in modern digital communication, severely impacting the psychological well-being of social media users, especially adolescents. Traditional detection techniques relying solely on textual features often fail to capture the complex, multi-dimensional nature...

Deepfakes, synthetic media generated using artificial intelligence, pose serious challenges to information authenticity, legal systems, and public trust. This review paper explores the landscape of deepfake detection techniques, encompassing both image and audio modalities. It examines state-of-the-art...

Forensic science has emerged as a crucial area of application for robotics, which has transformed from an intensive academic field into a transformational instrument across multiple sectors. Advances in artificial intelligence, computer modeling, sensing, and article, which looks at the state of robotics...

Molecular autopsy has evolved as a crucial technique in forensics and identification of medical condition specifically in revealing the genetic architecture of sudden death where conventional autopsy results remain in definitive. With evolution in Genomic sequencing two significant methods NGS (next...

One of the trickiest and most difficult subjects in forensic psychology is psychopathy. It represents a complex interaction of behavioural tendencies, neurological effects, personality qualities, and crime-related risks many of which are hidden beneath the surface and difficult to identify during normal...

Touch DNA has become an important part of forensic investigations because it can reveal genetic material from objects someone has simply handled. At the same time, it’s not easy to work with. The amount of DNA left behind can be very small and unpredictable, which makes collection and interpretation...

Virtual autopsy, employing post-mortem computed tomography (PMCT), post- mortem magnetic resonance imaging (PMMRI), and AI-assisted digital pathology, represents a major advancement in forensic medicine by enabling non-invasive, rapid, and reproducible post-mortem evaluations. Despite its increasing...

Forensic science traditionally focuses on scientific examination of physical or digital evidence to support criminal investigation and legal proceedings. However, there can be many hidden clues in the crime scenes in the form of signs, symbols, actions and communicative behaviors which can reveal implicit...

Virtopsy, or virtual autopsy, is a major technological development in forensic science and has emerged as a practical alternative and supplement to conventional postmortem examinations in the digital era. It relies on advanced imaging methods, such as computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging...

Forensics Anthropology a key branch of forensic science, which deals with the medico legal system through providing methods to identify human remains, determine biological profiles of the dead. Forensic anthropology mainly focuses on the human bones and their trauma analysis in which Skull trauma plays...

Dermatoglyphics, the study of skin ridge patterns on the fingers and palms, provides a unique window into a person’s genetic health. A key metric in this field is the atd angle, a palmar measurement that has been scientifically linked to conditions such as Type 2 Diabetes, congenital heart defects, and...

Fragrance traces on perfumes and deodorants are becoming a recognised and yet not extensively studied types of chemical trace evidence in forensic science. These products have varying blends of volatile and semi-volatile products, including alcohols, esters, aldehydes, fixatives, and additives, which...

Virtopsy has evolved as a contemporary, non-intrusive imaging technique that enhances the established method of autopsy. In the past few years, its scope has broadened in the forensic entomological field. Through cross-sectional imaging methods consisting of MRI, micro-CT scans, CT scans, and digital...

Automotive paint chips represent one of the most frequently encountered forms of trace evidence in vehicular collisions, particularly in hit-and-run cases. Their multilayered structure, distinctive colour formulations and manufacturer-specific compositions make them valuable indicators for associating...

Mupli beetle (Luprops tristis) is well known in seasonal mass indoor invasion in rubber-producing areas of India and is regarded as an important house pest. Although its biology, ecology, aggregation patterns and defensive chemistry have been well known, its possible significance to forensic science...

Touch DNA has become an important source of evidence in modern forensic investigations this is due to the common reason of people’s contact with personal devices like smartphones. As smartphone usage increases, people use different screen protectors which would include different materials used in its...

Postmortem imaging is changing the way we look at forensic investigations Instead of relying only on traditional autopsies. Modern techniques like CT scans and MRIs now give us a chance to examine the body without making a single cut. This review takes a closer look at how accurate these imaging tools...

The advancement of nanotechnology has significantly influenced the development of nanoparticle-based inks, offering remarkable improvements in ink durability, stability, and security features. These innovations have found crucial applications in anti-forgery measures, including secure document printing,...