Factors Influencing the State of the Fight Against Cybercrime in the Modern World

The article deals with one of the most pressing problems of the modern world - cybercrime, its main types and factors of combating it. With the development of communication and information technologies, cybercrime has become a very complex problem for the entire world community. The article also examines trends in the development of cybercrime. Cybercrime poses a threat to information security, using the personal data of citizens, stealing the data of various organizations, through the sale of which the criminals are enriched. Cybercriminals also threaten national security by hacking into networks containing data that is strategically important to the state. Legal regulation in the fight against cybercrime is the main measure to counter it. The State tightens the responsibility for committed cybercrimes, improves the legislation, and also criminalizes the acts of cybercriminals. Various companies and ordinary citizens need to protect their data by following the rules of technical self-defense, so as not to become victims of cybercriminals, who sometimes do not always know how to best dispose of stolen data. States of the world use various methods of combating cybercrime, attracting hackers to fight cyber threats, since the growth rate of crime in this area is considered the fastest in the world. There are several types of cybercrimes, including: theft of citizens ' credit card data, theft of corporate data and its sale, email fraud, and cyber-blackmail, i.e. threats of cyber-attacks if the financial requirements of criminals are not met. The scientific work revealed the need to develop common international standards, adopt criminal law norms and revise them taking into account the established international legal documents for the effective fight against cybercrime. In Russia, the department for combating cybercrime has started functioning relatively recently, and its staff includes employees who are both related to computer technologies and law enforcement agencies for the effective detection of crime on the territory of the Russian Federation. The ubiquitous connection to the Internet via smartphones, tablets, and laptops has greatly contributed to the development of cybercrime, the fight against which has come to the fore for all developed countries of the world.

cybercrime, personal data, security, prevention, public policy, Internet, computer technologies