الطبيعة القانونية للهجوم السيبراني و خصائصه

Abstract EN

Cyberattack is a criminal phenomenon that arose in the field of information technology and is carried out through attacks, penetrations and infiltrations within the information systems of public or private institutions with the purpose of either destroying these systems or obtaining confidential information stored, be it military or economic.

This criminal phenomenon has a special nature, as it does not focus on a concrete physical object but rather on the data or information stored inside the computer.

The cyberattack therefore seeks to either know the secret information stored on the computer or remove information from it, which leads to the victim’s loss of data and its being known or surveyed.

In this way, the information becomes worth a lot of money and subject to criminal assault if certain conditions are met.

Cybercrime is also characterized by the limitation of its discovery as it does not involve violence and does not leave traces behind, which makes it difficult to prove.

This is added to the fact that cybercrime is different from traditional crime in terms of its purpose or of the motives for committing it.