Cyber Times International Journal of Technology & Management

Cybercrime in general is any criminal activity which involves computers and networks. As technology has progressed, cost of technology has decreased thus connecting more and more people together. Though it has reduced the gap of communication it has also led to increase in Cybercrime incidents. The change in technology has brought forth a new face of Cybercrime, not just sheer increase in number of incidents. Cybercrime sums up various crimes such as Cyber Stalking, Internet frauds, Spreading Malwares, Spamming, Cyberwarfare, Identity theft, Phishing, Child Pornography, etc. Cybercrime which started as hacking activities of a few university graduates in early seventies has come a long way. With existence of market place such as Silk Road, where one can purchase various banned drugs and illegal weapons, Stuxnet a multistage malware, etc. one can say for sure that Cybercrime has evolved to an extent beyond ones belief. The main objective of this paper is to show case how Cybercrime has evolved and bring forth it’s ever changing nature.