What is Cyber Crime?

1. What is Cyber Crime? Cyber crime Prosecutors Home

2. What is cyber crime? > refers to any crime that involves a computer and a network >DebaratiHalder and Dr. K. Jaishankar: "Offences that are committed against individuals or groups of individuals with a criminal motive to intentionally harm

3. the reputation of the victim or cause physical or mental harm to the victim directly orindirectly, using modern telecommunication networks such as Internet and mobile phones ".

4. Crimes that primarily target computer networks or devices include: • Computer viruses • Denial-of-service-attack • Malware(malicious code)

5. Crimes that use computer networks or devices to advance other ends include: • Cyberstalking • Fraud and identity thief • Information warfare • Phishing scams

6. What is cyber crime? • Who: DenissCalovskis, a 27-year-old Latvian citizen, and two other Europeans : Nikita Kuzmin, a Russian and the mastermind behind the Gozi malware coding and MihaiIonutPaunescu, a 28-year-old Romanian.

8. What: DenissCalovskis, Nikita Kuzmin, and MihaiIonutPaunescu, were suspected of creating global malware called Gozi, faces charges of cyber-crime in US. The Russian cyber criminal behind the infamous Gozi malware, which affected more than

9. a million computers worldwide and was designed with the intent of stealing confidential banking credentials of users and affected thousands of customers, was charged in New York along with two accomplices according to the files released

10. by the U.S. Department of Justice. The charges against them include wire fraud, access device fraud, and computer intrusion, and bank fraud as per the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

11. When: Prosecutors say the sophisticated scam unfolded between 2005 and March 2012, adding that the virus was "virtually undetectable in the computers it infected".

12. Where: Europe and US • Why: For money purposes • How: Kuzmin, who hails from Russia, is supposed to have created the program for Gozi sometime around 2005, when he conceived of an idea

13. to create a virus which could steal banking credentials from victims and could escape antivirus software. After developing the virus, he started renting it to other like minded cyber criminals who wished to steal

14. various types of data for a weekly fee. • The virus was delivered via various means, and stolen data would be stored on a server, the access to which was granted depending on

15. the time period for which the payment was made. This distribution started in 2007 and was limited to Europe during that period, and reached the U.S. only in 2010.

16. Calovski, a Latvian who used the name “Miami” was the HTML injection expert and the one who anti-security updates to the criminals who could use these web injects to extract information from their victims as these

17. injects were able to alter the appearance of banking websites to the customers. • Paunescu, who comes from Romania,  and who went by the name “Virus”, was responsible for providing a

18. bulletproof hosting service to their criminal clients, which consists of IP addresses and servers which were used to send the scam emails containing the Gozi malware and others such as Zeus and SpyEye  Trojans, and

19. also controlling botnets and carrying out Denial of service attacks. • The case which was taken up by FBI in May 2010 when people in U.S. started getting affected and intercepted various conversations

20. and emails from Kuzmin which finally led to his arrest in San Francisco in November 2010. Kuzmin, later pleaded guilty to the charges against him and helped investigators in their investigation into the case.