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To name the types of active Cyber Criminals we have Crackers, Code Crackers, Information Merchants and Mercenaries, Organized Hacktivist, Disgruntled Employees/Partners/Lovers(trying to take revenge), Professional Hackers to name few of the groups.
Vladimir Levin,
Johan
Helsingius,
Kevin Mitnick,
Robert Morris to name few of the popular cyber criminals till date.
As defined in section 66 of The Information Technology Act, 2000 as follows "whoever with the intent to cause or knowing that he is likely to cause wrongful loss or damage to the public or any person destroys or deletes or alters any information residing in a computer resource or diminishes its value or utility or affects it injuriously by any means commits hacking"
Financial Crimes, Cyber Pornography, Sale of illegal articles, online gambling, email forging, email bombing, forgery, cyber defamation, data diddling, salami attacks, logic bombs, DOS attacks, distributed DOS attacks, Internet time theft, virus/worm attacks, Trojan attacks, Software Piracy, web jacking, password cracking, IP spoofing, intellectual property theft, social engineering, input validation attacks, buffer overflow attacks, morphing and the list continues....
An act pertaining to Computers, Information Technology, and/or the Internet, punishable by law is coined as Cyber Crimes. or/also
+ "unlawful acts wherein the computer is either a tool or a target or both".