1. Cyber Crime
Categories of Cyber Crime Against State

2. What is cybercrime?
 Cybercrime is a broad term that is used to define criminal activity in which computers or
computer networks are a tool, a target, or a place of criminal activity and include
everything from electronic wracking to denial of service attacks. It is a general term that
covers crimes like phishing, Credit card frauds, bank robbery, illegal downloading,
industrial espionage, child pornography, kidnapping children via chat rooms, scams, cyber
terrorism, creation and or distribution of viruses, spam and so on.
 It also covers that traditional crimes in which computers or networks are used to enable the
illicit activity. Cyber crime is increasing day by day, nowadays it has become a new fashion
to earn money by fraud calls or to take revenge through hacking other accounts.

3.  Today, criminals that indulge in cybercrimes are not motivated by ego or expertise. Instead, they
want to use their knowledge to gain profits promptly. They are using their capability to snip,
deceive and exploit people as they find it easy to generate money without having to do an honest
work. Cybercrimes have become major threat today.
 Cybercrimes are broadly categorized into three groups such as crime against
 Individual
 Property
 Government
 Individual:
This type of cybercrime can be in the form of cyber stalking, distributing , trafficking and
"grooming".
 Property:
Same as in the real world where a criminal can steal and pickpocket, even in the cyber world,
offenders resort to stealing and robbing.

4. Government
Crimes against a government are denoted to as cyber terrorism. If criminals are successful, it can
cause devastation and panic amongst the citizen. In this class, criminals hack government websites,
military websites or circulate propaganda. The committers can be terrorist outfits or unfriendly
governments of other nations.

5. Cyber Terrorism
Cyber terrorism is the use of the Internet to conduct violent acts that result
in, or threaten, the loss of life or significant bodily harm, in order to achieve
political or ideological gains through threat or intimidation. Acts of
deliberate, large-scale disruption of computer networks, especially of
personal computers attached to the Internet by means of tools such as
computer viruses, computer worms, phishing, malicious software, hardware
methods, programming scripts can all be forms of internet terrorism.

6. Cyber Fraud
Cyber fraud is a blanket term to describe crimes committed by cyberattackers via the internet. These
crimes are committed with the intent to illegally acquire and leverage an individual's or business’s
sensitive information for monetary gain.
o Cyber fraud examples
There are many different types of cyber fraud, but they all have one thing in common: the use of
technology to commit a crime. Here are just a few examples of cyber fraud:
 Phishing
 Malware
 Ransomware
 DDoS Attacks
 Social engineering