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Cybercrime and Cybercriminals: A Comprehensive Study
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International Journal of Computer Networks and Communications Security 
VOL. 4, NO. 6, JUNE 2016, 165–176 
Available online at: www.ijcncs.org 
E-ISSN 2308-9830 (Online) / ISSN 2410-0595 (Print)
 
Cybercrime and Cybercriminals: A Comprehensive Study 
REGNER SABILLON
1
, JEIMY CANO
2
, VICTOR CAVALLER
3
, JORDI SERRA
4
 
 
1 
Network and Information Technologies Doctoral Programme, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), 
Barcelona, Spain 
2
Law Faculty, Universidad de los Andes (Uniandes), Bogota, Colombia 
3
Information and Communication Studies, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain 
4
Network and Information Technologies Doctoral Programme, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), 
Barcelona, Spain 
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ABSTRACT 
The increasing expansion and diversification in the strategies and practices of cybercrime has become a 
difficult obstacle in order both to understand the extent of embedded risks and to define efficient policies of 
prevention for corporations, institutions and agencies. The present study represents the most comprehensive 
review of the origin, typologies and developments of Cybercrime phenomenon over the past decade so far. 
By means of this detailed study, this paper tackles the issue first describing and discussing former different 
criteria of classification in the field and secondly, providing a broad list of definitions and an analysis of the 
cybercrime practices. A conceptual taxonomy of cybercrime is introduced and described. The proposal of a 
classification criterion is used in conjunction with a cybercrime hierarchy derived from the degrees and 
scale of vulnerability and targets. 
Keywords:
Cybercrime, Cybercrime taxonomy, Network-level Security and Protection, Security and 
Privacy Protection, Abuse and Crime Involving Computers.