Cyber Crimes Committed via Digital Media

Demonstrate Their Concept In Terms of: its Forms, Characteristics, Elements and Motive of Committing it

Abstract

This paper dealt with the concept of cybercrime and its forms, characteristics, pillars, and motive for committing them, as the development of information technology in the twentieth century led to the emergence of new and new forms of crimes that mankind is not used to and the cyberspace has become a scene for them, where the criminal can pass through this space. His attacks are fast and hidden, and often do not leave a trace of his crime, so that it becomes difficult for investigators and specialists to discover or prove the crime; Because it was committed in an intangible and borderless cyber space, and therefore it is difficult to convict the accused, which led to the emergence of a question about what cybercrime is, its forms, characteristics, pillars, and motives, as digital transformation is one of the main pillars of achieving the Kingdom's vision 2030 for the development of digital infrastructure. Because of its importance, this research discussed the concept of cybercrime in terms of its forms, characteristics, pillars, and motives, and this study reached many results and recommendations, most notably that the cyber criminal exploits crises and that one of the most prominent methods of phishing during this period of study and what the country is witnessing in the face of the Corona pandemic is phishing in the name of Corona (COVID-19), as well as the need for the legislator to intervene in issuing a special and independent system for digital penal procedures in line with the digital transformation taking place in the Kingdom