The Impact of Digitalization Process on the Extremist Ideology Transformation

The purpose of this study was to study the impact of digitalization on the growth of extremist ideology and the crimes committed by its adherents. Extremist organizations saw in digitalization the broadest opportunities for the implementation of their activities and began to develop it comprehensively. As a result of the development of the process of digitalization by extremist organizations, attacks on the information storages of corporations and companies around the world have become. In the modern world, every large company and law enforcement agencies of states around the world spend a huge amount of money on a security system from hackers and extremist organizations. In the context of widespread digitalization, extremist organizations can now spread chaos and strike at the economies of countries remotely, without using an army of fanatics for this. If earlier, in order to achieve their goals, extremists dealt direct blows to the state, by committing terrorist attacks, today they need one skilled hacker and a personal computer to destabilize the situation. Extremist organizations do not spend practically any money for this, and as a result of their actions, corporations, banks and individuals lose huge financial and information resources. The priority targets of the extremists are the largest multinational companies and the largest banks in the world, which make huge annual turnovers of funds, and also have information about their subsidiaries and major partners. Naturally, attacking one large transnational company, many small and medium-sized companies cooperating with it fall under attack. It has been established that the process of digitalization has affected modern society both positively and negatively. On the one hand, it has facilitated the work of many companies that, using various programs, can save on labor; the process of learning and self-development has become much easier. On the other hand, digital technologies began to be mastered by criminal communities and groups, incl. extremist organizations that have learned to use it for their own purposes.

extremism, digitalization, cyber attack, cyber extremism, counteraction, struggle