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Basically these are Criminal activities or offences that are carried out in a digital environment can be considered as cyber crime. These are carried out against either an individual, or a group, or an organisation or even against a country, with the intent to directly or indirectly cause physical harm, financial loss or mental harassment. A cyber criminal attacks a computer or a network by spreading viruses and other malwares in order to steal private and confidential data for blackmailing and extortion. A computer virus is some lines of malicious code that can copy itself and can have detrimental effect on the computers, by destroying data or corrupting the system. Similarly, malware is a software designed to specifically gain unauthorised access to computer systems and these criminal activities are alarmingly increasing day-by-day, with frequent reports of hacking, ransomware attacks, email fraud, banking fraud and identity theft.