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We live in an era defined by an invisible war. Every day, hospitals are held hostage, financial institutions are plundered, government secrets are exfiltrated, and ordinary citizens become victims of crimes they cannot see, touch, or fully comprehend. The battlefield is digital, the adversaries are global, and the investigative challenge is unlike anything the law enforcement and forensic science communities have faced before. This book is a response to that challenge.  Cybercrime Investigation: From Evidence to Intelligence is written for a broad but specific audience: students pursuing careers in digital forensics and cybersecurity, practitioners building or expanding their investigative capabilities, educators structuring curricula in forensic science and information security, legal professionals who must understand and challenge digital evidence, and policy makers who need a substantive foundation for the decisions they make about cyber law, law enforcement resources, and national security posture. The book has been deliberately structured to serve all of these readers without sacrificing depth for any of them.  The 31 chapters of this book trace a deliberate arc. We begin at the foundation — the cybercrime landscape, the principles of digital forensics, and the investigative frameworks that structure all subsequent work. We move through the technical core of forensic examination: disk and media analysis, memory forensics, network investigation, cloud forensics, mobile devices, and IoT systems. We then turn to the specialized domains that define modern cybercrime: ransomware, dark web operations, cryptocurrency tracing, nation-state intrusions, financial fraud, and the emerging challenge of AI-enabled crime. The final section of the book addresses the intelligence layer — transforming forensic findings into actionable threat intelligence — and the professional infrastructure that sustains the field: laboratory management, accreditation, report writing, and expert testimony.