An Overview of Emerging Cybercrime Trends in Romania

• In Event: Cybercrime Working Group - Trends in cybercrime 1

Abstract

More than two decades after the Convention on Cybercrime, new trends in cybercrime have emerged. The adoption and evolution of social networks, blockchain technology, IoT devices, and artificial intelligence have significantly influenced the perpetrators' modi operandi. From identity theft using deepfake technology to cryptojacking, counterfeiting crypto tokens, or manipulating smart contracts at the blockchain level, these new methods underline the necessity for a systematic review of the current legal framework, literature, and jurisprudence. This paper analyses the most relevant emerging modi operandi in Romania from a substantive criminal law perspective. In this context, offences such as illegal access to an information system, computer forgery, and computer fraud are scrutinised to determine whether the scope of the criminal provisions is adequate to attract criminal liability.

Author

• George Zlati, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University "1 Decembrie 1918", Alba-Iulia