Rajesh Kumar Chakrawarti, PhD is a Professor and the Director at the Sushila Devi Bansal College of Technology in the Bansal Group of Institutes, Indore with more than 21 years of academic and industry experience. He has attended more than 100 conferences and published more than 100 research papers, book chapters, and abstracts in national and international journals and conferences. His research areas include compiler design, natural language processing, computational linguistics, machine translation, and word-sense disambiguation. Romil Rawat is a researcher at the Research Laboratory in Geomatics and Information Systems, part of the National Research Council in Rome and a Professor at Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya. He has published more than 15 research papers in international journals and conferences and more than ten books. His work focuses on the development of state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms aimed at detecting, predicting, and mitigating criminal activities across social networks. Kriti Bhaswar Singh, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Commerce and Financial Studies in the School of Management Sciences at the Central University of Jharkhand with more than 20 years of teaching and corporate experience. He has published four books and 36 research papers and book chapters on various areas of finance in refereed journals and presented 23 papers in various conferences. His research focuses on the capital market, corporate finance, and valuations. A. Samson Arun Raj, PhD is an Assistant Professor and Internal Placement Coordinator in the Division of Computer Science and Engineering in the School of Computer Science and Technology at the Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences. He has published more than 25 articles in international journals and conferences of repute. He is engaged in cutting-edge research for smart city development, focusing on drone networks and energy grid applications. Abhishek Singh, PhD is the Director of the Rajiv Academy for Technology and Management with more than 22 years of teaching experience. He has published more 22 research papers in international journals and presented an additional 30 at international conferences. His teachings focus on accounting and finance. Hitesh Rawat is a PhD Research scholar at Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya University with more that eight years of experience. He has chaired international conferences and hosted several research events, including national and international research schools, PhD colloquia, workshops, and training programs. His work focuses on business frameworks for secure communication and cybersecurity. Anjali Rawat is a PhD Research scholar at Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya University with more than eight years of experience. She has chaired international conferences and hosted several research events, including national and international research schools, PhD colloquia, workshops, and training programs. Her research focuses on cyberthreats in online social networks.

• Preface xvii1 Intersection of AI, Neuroscience, and Cryptography in Cybercrime Investigations 1Priya Matta, Dhiren P. Bhagat, Priyanka Rastogi, Anisha and Atika Gupta2 Detecting and Preventing Synthetic Identity Fraud and Mapping Davinder 19Singh Gill, Mirza Shuja, Tapan Kant and Mukesh Kumar3 AI-Generated Propaganda and Automated Misinformation Warfare 37Romil Rawat4 Techniques for Analyzing and Debunking Deepfakes 53Alpesh Soni, Kamal Borana, Juber Mirza and Abhishek Sharma5 How Attackers Can Steal and Manipulate Brainwave Signals 69A. Samson Arun Raj, Abhishek Singh Rathore, Juber Mirza, Ankita Chourasia and Abhishek Sharma6 Developing AI-Enhanced Forensic Tools to Combat Cognitive Cybercrimes 85Priya Matta, Atika Gupta, R.K. Saini, Sopan Talekar and Manjusha Tatiya7 Social Engineering in the AI Era: Exploiting Human Perception for Threat 103Sunil Parihar, Ankit Jain, Rahul Verma, Rupa Rajoriya and Kapil Bhardwaj8 Understanding Cognitive Vulnerabilities and Psychological Hacking Techniques 119Anjali Rawat and Anand Rajavat9 AI-Powered Misinformation Campaigns and Subliminal Influence Tactics 135Rajesh Kumar Chakrawarti, A. Samson Arun Raj, Alpesh Soni and Sachin Chirgaiya10 Brainwave Authentication: Threats and Vulnerabilities 153Hitesh Rawat and Anand Rajavat11 Algorithmic Bias and Psychographic Profiling for Manipulation 171Hitesh Rawat and Anand Rajavat12 Role of AI-Enhanced Cryptographic Techniques in Protecting Cognition 189Vivek Bhardwaj, Balwinder Kaur Dhaliwal, Jeyaganesh Viswanathan and Davinder Singh Gill13 AI-Powered Mind-Reading and Neural Exploitation Techniques 207Hitesh Rawat, Anjali Rawat, Romil Rawat and Anand Rajavat14 AI-Generated Misinformation and Automated Psychological Warfare 227Hitesh Rawat, Anjali Rawat and Anand Rajavat15 Analyzing Neural Forensics Data in Criminal Investigations 245Priya Matta, Minit Arora, Sopan Talekar, Priyanka Rastogi and Gagan Dangwal16 Preventing Neural Data Leaks with Biometric Encryption 267Antonio González-Torres17 Deepfake Forensics and Synthetic Media Attacks 283Yagyanath Rimal, Rajesh Kumar Chakrawarti, Neeraj Mehta, and Alpesh Soni18 Identifying and Mitigating Psychological Bias in Cybersecurity 303Yagyanath Rimal, Romil Rawat, Rajesh Kumar Chakrawarti and Abhishek Sharma19 AI-Assisted Deep Social Profiling for Cyber Exploitation 321Vivek Bhardwaj, Tanima Thakur, Jeyaganesh Viswanathan and Mukesh Kumar20 Investigative Approaches for Dark Web Cognitive Cybercrimes 339Anjali Rawat and Anand Rajavat21 AI-Powered Image Morphing and Watermarking Techniques for Threat Attribution 359Chandrapal Singh Dangi, Abhishek Singh Rathore, Kamal Borana and Sachin Chirgaiya22 Decentralized Identity Verification: Blockchain for Cognitive Security 379Mukesh Kumar, Sahil Rampal, Tapan Kant and Davinder Singh Gill23 Cognitive Cyber Crimes in the AI Era: Unraveling Digital Deception through Intelligent Data Analytics 397Ashish Dibouliya24 Forensic Insights into Cognitive Cyberattacks: Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics 415Romil Rawat25 Cognitive Cybersecurity for Protecting Rural Artisan E-Commerce Platforms 435Devbrath, Kriti Bhaswar Singh, Neha Aggarwal and Kuntal Dutta26 Fraud and Misreporting Risks in Executive Pay: A Cognitive AI Detection Framework by Algorithmic Governance 557Neha Aggarwal, Kriti Bhaswar Singh, Devbrath and Kuntal Dutta27 Cognitive AI Systems for Real-Time Market Anomaly Detection and Asset Pricing in Financial Markets 475Kuntal Dutta, Kriti Bhaswar Singh, Devbrath and Neha Aggarwal28 Block Chain for Detecting Financial Accounting Risk 493Kriti Bhaswar Singh, Abhishek Singh, S.K. Singh and Sanjeev GuptaReferences 507About the Editors 509Index 513