The Relevance of the Issue of Combating Cybercrime as a Component of General Criminal Activity

Abstract

The article substantiates the existence of the concept of "cybercrime" in criminal law, and also draws a correlation between the concepts of "cybercrime" and "computer crime", and formulates the author's own concept of these phenomena, and based on the analysis of special legal literature, the author provides the author's classification of cybercrime. In today's conditions of intensive development of the information society, the total number of crimes related to the use of computer equipment and the Internet is growing significantly, and this gives rise to the relevance of the emergence of an independent layer in the structure of transnational crime – computer crime, since crimes related to information systems threaten organizations, institutions, individuals and, in general, the information security of Ukraine and other countries. The term "cybercrime" has not yet found its final definition in the theory of scientific knowledge. A generalized term is the understanding of cybercrime as a set of criminal acts in cyberspace, which will be characterized by their commission with the help of computer systems (networks), as well as other means of access to cyberspace and against computer systems and networks. Cybercrime is classified by the object and target of interference and the method of its commission. The development of the legislative framework and response to all the problems of combating cybercrime still lags behind the development of information technology. Mechanisms for controlling the prevention and investigation of offenses in cyberspace are currently very limited both socially and technically. This leads to the possibility of becoming a victim of the use of information technology for criminal purposes due to the automation and speed of computer use.