What are the main types of computer crimes?

Computer crime refers to an act that harms a country, a group or an individual by means of computer information system or computer information knowledge, or with computer information system as the goal, and should be punished according to law. Computer crimes can be divided into three categories: (1) crimes against computers, such as attacks on personal computers or networks, including illegally obtaining information stored on target computers or networks, or illegally destroying such information; (2) Hackers, Trojans, worms, spreading viruses, logic bombs and other crimes that attack computers are more common when the computer is a specific form of crime scene, source, cause or property loss; (3) Traditional crimes that use computers as criminal tools, such as using computer systems to steal other people's credit card information, or storing and disseminating obscene articles through networked computers. Related crimes include: the crime of illegally invading computer information system, the crime of illegally obtaining computer information system data, and the crime of illegally controlling computer information system; Crime of providing intrusion, illegal control of computer information system programs and tools, and crime of destroying the function of computer information system.

legal ground

Article 286 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) * * * The crime of destroying the computer information system violates state regulations, deletes, modifies, adds or interferes with the functions of the computer information system, so that the computer information system cannot operate normally, and if the consequences are serious, it shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention; If the consequences are especially serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years. Whoever, in violation of state regulations, deletes, modifies or adds data and applications stored, processed and transmitted in the computer information system, with serious consequences, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Whoever intentionally produces and spreads destructive programs such as computer viruses, which affects the normal operation of computer systems and causes serious consequences, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the first paragraph.