ABSTRACT
The threat of cybercrime has been evolving together with the evolution of the information technologies and increasing use of the information and communication networks. The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic change in the cybercrime landscape. From its early days, when computer crimes required technical skills and were committed mostly out of curiosity or to test the system vulnerabilities, digital crime grew in its scope and transformed in a complex highly sophisticated illegal industry, adopting every technological innovation to its benefit (McAffee, 2018: p. 3; Tropina, 2013: p. 52). Despite all the efforts of international organizations, governments, law enforcement agencies and industry to tackle the problem of cybercrime, it continues growing to a scale that represents a potential threat to global economic integrity (Cilluffo, 2017: p. 5).
