Targets of Cyber Crimes

Targets of Cyber Crimes

Underworld criminal does not have any specific target however the main target of these criminal is the “databases and archives of governments and national security infrastructures are prime targets for cyber exploitation by the criminal underworld”.In addition to this, the databases of banks and private organization are also the target of these criminals.Some cybercrimes are carried out against computers or devices directly to damage or disable them, while others use computers or networks to spread malware, illegal information, images or other materials. Some cybercrimes do both -- i.e., target computers to infect them with a computer virus, which is then spread to other machines and, sometimes, entire networks.