Cyber Crime in India

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Cyber Crime in India

Cybercrime in India has been rapidly growing with the advancement of technology. It's become a burning issue nowadays. Many types of tricks, scams and offences being committed in the cyber world. Information Technology Act, 2000 has listed various types of crimes. Many Cyber cells in India have been set up to follow the protocols of Cybercrime act in India. 

Digitisation has made everyone depended on the technology for single basic needs, like, online shopping, food ordering, online studies, online communication, online entertainment, online payment etc. This dependence becomes the most powerful paths for the criminals. Crimes like, kidnapping, fraud,  hacking, data theft are being committed with the help of the Internet.

 What is Cyber Crime?

Cybercrime is a type of crime or an illegal act in which the computer is used either as a device, a target or both. In other words, it is an unauthorised access to a computer without the proper permission. Crimes like phishing, stalking, spoofing, online transaction fraud, cyberstalking, credit card fraud, child pornography etc and many more are included under cybercrime act.

Types of Cyber Crime:

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Several types of cybercrimes exist in the society, like,

 • Cyberstalking: 
    Stalking means repeated acts of annoying someone. It is online harassment to target using the Internet as a medium. Generally, in such cases, the stalker is well-informed about the victims and their activities. A stalker usually use victim's internet, emails, messages, phone calls, personal videos, webcams to annoy the target. The criminals track the victim's online activities to stalk them.

• Hacking: 
    The act which breaks the computer system or network system for illegal gains or misuse is called Hacking. It is an unauthorised access to someone's personal information stored in a computer system without the permission of the owner. Criminals who are involved in these crimes are called 'Hackers'. Hackers misuses that personal information like bank transition, credit card information, email id logging for their own gain.

• Spoofing: 
    It's mean misrepresentation of original data. Criminals send emails, messages or even phone calls to the targets in the name of the original authority to access personal information of the victim's like bank details.

• Online Fraud: 
    Online fraud is a very common type of cybercrime. Stealing credentials data from target and withdrawal money from the victim's account. Online lottery scams are also included in this section.

• Phishing: 
    Sending spam emails to the victims, claiming to be an authorised enterprise to obtain personal data is called phishing. 

• Child Pornography: 
    It is a form of child sexual exploitation. Any image or videos of sexually offensive involving to the minors are under this crime. Section 67B of IT Act, which criminalised child pornography.

• Cyber Defamation: 
    Violating someone's reputation in society through the Internet is under cyber defamation. In this case, criminals spread derogatory statements, vulgar pictures, videos, emails etc on social media or victim's close circles.

• Transmitting virus: 
    A computer virus is a malware program that infects files, disk, drives, software and personal data. Criminals spread viruses through the internet or storage devices to damage the system.

• Cyber Trafficking: 
    This section deals with illegal trade activities such as human trafficking, slaves etc.

• Cyber Terrorism: 
    Terrorism is an act of producing fear in the mind of civilians. When this work is done by the Internet through the computer it is called cyber terrorism. Section 66-F of the Information Technology Act, 2002 deals with this section.

• Intellectual Property Crimes: 
    IPRc thefts are the most common cybercrime, including online piracy, software piracy, copyright, designs, violation of patents, theft of source code etc.

• Cyber Warfare: 
    It is an internet-based war which can destroy authorised Websites, Network systems, Sensex details, Payment getaway, Internet services etc.

• Cyber Vandalism: 
    Destroying the data of electronic medium during the period when network services are unavailable is under this segment.

• Cybersquatting: 
    Squatting is illegal occupying an uninhabited place. When two or more persons claim the same domain, it falls under this section. In this case, the hacker claims that he is the rightful owner of that said domain.

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