Computer crime or cybercrime is a form of crime where the Internet or computers are used as a medium to commit crime. Issues surrounding this type of crime have become high-profile, particularly those surrounding hacking, copyright infringement, child pornography, and child grooming. There are also problems of privacy when confidential information is lost or intercepted, lawfully or otherwise.

Seven mayor Cyber Crime criminals

Here are 7 major criminals in cyberspace, even though their names are pseudonyms, but they are real.

 1. Kodiak

In 1994, Kodiak accessing customer accounts of several large companies in major banks and transfer funds to accounts that have been prepared by their accomplices in Finland, the United States, Germany, Israel and England. In the year 2005, he was sentenced and jailed for three years. Kodiak is estimated to have been stolen for 10.7 million dollars.

2. Don Fanucci

At the age of 15 years, Don Fanucci conduct a series of attacks in February 2000 against several commercial web sites with high-traffick. He was sentenced to prison in his home town, Montreal, Quebec, on 12 September 2001 for eight months in open custody, one year probation, barring use of the Internet, and fines. Global economic damage as a result of his attacks were believed to reach 7.5 million to 1.2 billion dollars.

3. Pox

One of the creators of e-mail virus “Love Bug” (iloveyou), Pox, suspected to have infected and crippled more than 50 million computers and networks on May 4, 2000. The virus also attacked the computers of the Pentagon, the CIA and large organizations other and cause losses of millions of dollars due to damages. Because the Philippines has no laws against computer hacking crimes, Fox was never charged with crimes.

4. Mishkal
Mishkal accused as one of the godfather of credit card counterfeiters in Eastern Europe. He and partner-partner accused of mass producing credit and debit cards false. At one point, they are reported to have incomes up to 100,000 dollars per day. He was arrested but later released after six months of arrest, and immediately look for a position in the Ukrainian government – a position that would give him automatic immunity from further prosecution.

5. The Wiz and Piotrek

The Wiz, 23 years old, and Piotrek, 27 years old, from Chelyabinsk, Russia, was sentenced to a number of demands perkomplotan, various computer crimes, and fraud are binding against financial institutions in Seattle, Los Angeles and Texas. Among other things, they stole the database of about 50,000 credit cards. Both were fined and sentenced to at least three years in prison.

6. Roper, Red_Skwyre, and Dragov

Three people are the core of the network with the virtual world of evil extort money from banks, Internet casinos, and various other web-based businesses. They are simple strategy, namely to hack and keep the account transactions for a ransom of 40,000 dollars. Charged with causing direct damage to more than 2 million poundstarling and the damage was not directly about 40 million poundstarling. In October 2007, the trio were found guilty and sentenced to eight years in prison.

7. Bandit

Bandit manipulate approximately 500,000 computers and renting it for criminal activities. He was arrested in November 2005 in an FBI operation, and sentenced to 60 months in prison, and ordered to surrender a luxury car costing 58,000 dollars from the proceeds of crime. He was also ordered to pay 15,000 dollars in compensation to the United States government for military computers are infected.

Norton about these cybercriminals. - Norton antivirus