Современные возможности судебной компьютерно-технической экспертизы при расследовании различных видов преступлений

Теория и практика судебной экспертизы. 2020. Т. 15. № 3. С. 89–97.

Завьялова Д. В.

The article focuses on the present state of digital forensics and its potential when
investigating different types of crimes with a “digital” element. It also presents a brief historical overview
of the development of digital forensics as an independent type of forensic examination, its theoretical
framework.
The paper presents a summary of the practice of the Laboratory of Digital Forensics of the Russian
Federal Centre of Forensic Science of the Russian Ministry of Justice over 2017–2019. In the course of
the summary, the author analyses typical questions to experts, the percentage of cases’ categories, the
most common objects of the expertise, and experts’ opinions, their form, and completeness. Following
the summary’s results, the most frequent investigators’ requests for this kind of examination have been
highlighted. Also, typical errors at appointing the expertise have been revealed.
The author presents a prognosis for the further development of digital forensics and proposes strategies
and measures to minimize the errors at the appointment of the examinations and unsustainable
expenditure of resources in appointment and conduct of this type of research.

Keywords: преступления в сфере компьютерной информации, компьютерные преступления, вредоносное программное обеспечение, malware detection, cybercrimes, computer crimes, киберпреступления, судебная компьютерно-техническая экспертиза, digital forensics, ошибки при назначение экспертизы