Cybercrimes describe cases of indictable offences and misdemeanours in which computer or any communication tools are involved as targets, commission instruments, incidental to, or that cases are associated with the prevalence of computer technology. Common forms of cybercrimes could be child pornography, cyberstalking, identity theft, cyber laundering, credit card theft, cyber terrorism, drug sale, data leakage, sexually explicit content, phishing and other cyber hacking. These kinds of cybercrimes are mostly leading to breaching users’ privacy, security violation, business loss, financial fraud, or damage in public as well as government properties. Hence, this paper intensively reviews cybercrime detection and prevention methods. It first explores the different types of cybercrimes then discusses their threats against privacy and security in computer systems. It also describes the strategies that cybercriminals might utilize in committing these crimes against individuals, organizations, and societies. The paper then reviews the existing techniques of cybercrime detection and prevention. It objectively discusses the strengths and critically analyses the vulnerabilities of each technique. As a future study, the paper provides recommendations for the development of cybercrime detection model in which it is capable to effectively detect cybercrime in comparison to the existing techniques.

In recent years, the ever-mounting problem of Internet phishing has been threatening the secure propagation of sensitive data over the web, thereby resulting in either outright decline of data distribution or inaccurate data distribution from several data providers. Therefore, user privacy has evolved into a critical issue in various data mining operations. User privacy has turned out to be a foremost criterion for allowing the transfer of confidential information. The intense surge in storing the personal data of customers (i.e., big data) has resulted in a new research area, which is referred to as privacy-preserving data mining (PPDM). A key issue of PPDM is how to manipulate data using a specific approach to enable the development of a good data mining model on modified data, thereby meeting a specified privacy need with minimum loss of information for the intended data analysis task. The current review study aims to utilize the tasks of data mining operations without risking the security of individuals’ sensitive information, particularly at the record level. To this end, PPDM techniques are reviewed and classified using various approaches for data modification. Furthermore, a critical comparative analysis is performed for the advantages and drawbacks of PPDM techniques. This review study also elaborates on the existing challenges and unresolved issues in PPDM.