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Cyber threats like espionage and Denial of Service (DoS)
attacks to offensive
actions by adversarial State and Non-State actors. Several countries are developing
sophisticated malicious codes as lethal cyber weapons. Large scale mapping of
SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) devices using specialized
tools, pose major challenge for any country.
Cyber related Crimes in India
i)
Cyber crime data by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)
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Year
Cases
Cyber
Crime
2013
5,693
Identity
theft, phishing, obscene publication/
transmission in electronic form, cyber forgery and
cyber frauds.
A total of 95 persons have
been convicted for Cyber
Crimes during 2014
2014
9,622 (69% rise)
2015
11,592 (20% rise)
ii) Information reported to and tracked by,
Indian Computer Emergency
Response Team (CERTIn)
Year
Cases
Types of Cyber Crime
2014
44679
Including phishing, Scanning,
Malicious code, Website intrusion,
Denial of Service etc
2015
49455
2016
50362
Year
Cases
2014
85659
Unsolicited e-mails
2015
61628
2014
155
Government
websites were hacked
2015
164
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iii) Data made available by
Reserve Bank of India (RBI),
Year
Cases Types of Cyber Crime
2013-14
9500
2014-15
13083 Cases related to ATM/ Credit/ Debit Cards &
Net Banking
frauds were reported by the banks.
2015-16
16468
2016-17 upto
December
2016
8689
