In this article we will look at different types of cyber criminals. The types of cyber criminals have mainly three categories.
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Cybercriminals are people who commit cybercrimes. Based on the motivation for committing cybercrimes, cybercriminals can be divided into three categories or types as given below:
- Cybercriminals who are hungry for recognition
- Cybercriminals who are not interested in recognition
- Cybercriminals who are insiders
The typical motives for conducting cybercrimes can be greed for money, desire to gain power and reputation, desire for revenge, a sense of adventure, excitement to access forbidden information, destruction, and desire to sell underground services.
Suryateja Pericherla, at present is a Research Scholar (full-time Ph.D.) in the Dept. of Computer Science & Systems Engineering at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. Previously worked as an Associate Professor in the Dept. of CSE at Vishnu Institute of Technology, India.
He has 11+ years of teaching experience and is an individual researcher whose research interests are Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Computer Security, Network Security and Blockchain.
He is a member of professional societies like IEEE, ACM, CSI and ISCA. He published several research papers which are indexed by SCIE, WoS, Scopus, Springer and others.
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