COUNTERING THE USE OF THE INTERNET FOR TERRORIST PURPOSES

Currently, all spheres of life of the state, society and person are associated with the processes of digitalization and informatization. The development of information technologies entails not only positive changes, but also contributes to the improvement of the criminal activities of terrorist and extremist organizations, which, through the use of digital opportunities and cyberspace, promote their ideas, views, use the Internet space in their illegal interests. Terrorists and extremists actively use the Internet, which, due to its characteristics, allows them to carry out illegal activities and remain undisclosed. In this regard, the task of public authorities is to pursue an efficient and effective policy to prevent the use of cyberspace for terrorist purposes. The article reveals the main advantages of the Internet, which are used by terrorist and extremist organizations for their illegal purposes, focuses on the activities of state authorities in combating the financing of terrorism carried out through cyberspace, points out the need to create new and improve existing ways to identify, suppress and disclosure of crimes mediated by the peculiarities of the global virtual space. The author points out certain difficulties associated with identifying persons committing illegal acts of a terrorist nature, and at the same time notes that countering the use of the Internet for terrorist and extremist purposes should be carried out through interdepartmental interaction of all interested parties.

cyberspace, Internet, crime prevention, terrorism, extremism, information technology