Cyberterrorism: criminological characteristics and qualification

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The article addresses the problem of the problem of cyberterrorist attacks on information resources and information infrastructure. The author gives a criminological description of various types of cyberterrorism and offers options for qualifying crimes of a cyberterrorist nature. Based on foreign experience, various models and main directions of countering cyberterrorism are substantiated.

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Vladislav V. Krasinsky

Main Department of Regional Security of the Moscow Region

Email: krasinskijvv@fedsfm.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow Region, Krasnogorsk

Vladislav Valer'evich Mashko

Russian State University for the Humanities

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Email: kmbiai@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow

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