Cybercrime
In our current era, new and modern regulations have been issued that many people overlook, as they have great importance in society. In order to ensure that none of our valued customers fall into these risks, we will explain the meaning of electronic crimes, their types and characteristics, and how to report them. Many individuals commit these crimes without their knowledge of the penalties imposed on the perpetrator, and we explain this in the following
The concept of cybercrime
Cybercrimes are defined as practices that are committed against an individual or a group with a criminal motive with the aim of intentionally causing harm to the victim’s hearing, or psychological and physical damage to him, whether directly or indirectly, with the help of modern communication networks such as (the Internet) and its related tools such as mail. e-mail, chat rooms, mobile phones and related tools such as multimedia messages
Types of crimes
There are many types of cybercrime
1- Electronic crimes against individuals
These are crimes in which the electronic identity of individuals is accessed in illegal ways, such as e-mail accounts and passwords that belong to them, and may lead to impersonation of their identities and taking important files and pictures from their devices, with the aim of threatening them with them to comply with their orders, and it is also called personal cybercrime
2- Electronic crimes against governments
They are crimes that attack the official websites of governments and their network systems and focus on completely destroying the infrastructure of these websites or network systems, and the people who commit these crimes are called pirates, and their goals are often political
3- Electronic crimes against property
They are crimes that target personal, governmental and private institutions, and aim to destroy important documents or special programs, and these crimes are carried out by transmitting malicious programs to the devices of these institutions using many methods such as electronic messages
4- Electronic political crimes
These are crimes that target the military sites of countries with the aim of stealing information related to the country and its security
5- Information theft
It includes information stored electronically and distributed by illegal means
The dangers of cybercrime
The spread of cybercrime in societies leads to many risks and threats, including affecting and threatening the economy and national security, affecting family relations and forming disputes between family members, which leads to family disintegration, due to the many results caused by some types of cybercrime, such as defaming some individuals and spreading false news. and rumours