A New Taxonomy of Cyber Violent Extremism (Cyber-VE) Attack

Holding the extremism, does not mean the people will become violent person. However, with the extremism movements, it will create the inspiration and motivation to the person and as a result motivate them to carry out specific acts of violence. Violent extremism happens when someone choose to carry out violent method and intent to cause harm to other. Recently, violent extremism group use Internet as their platform to form online communities and launch their attack, these activities known as Cyber Violent Extremism (Cyber-VE). Therefore, the aim of this paper is to construct a taxonomy on Cyber-VE attack to assist forensic investigators identifying the Cyber-VE attack. The method consists of identifying activities, classifying and identifying the relationship, and constructing taxonomy of Cyber-VE attack. The proposed taxonomy will be used to develop a profiling framework for tracing Cyber-VE attack. The findings will help on avoiding the misunderstanding on the concept of extremist.