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The Indian Police Journaland adult and child pornography. The anonymity of the Internetfacilitates the criminals to cause different types of Cyber Crimes,such as spamming, phishing, hacking, and denial of service, Networkintrusion and spreading of virus, worms and Trojans. The criminality commit cyber-warfare, cyber-terrorism, distribution and disruptionof information, netspionage and cross-border attacks targeted acrossboundaries. Cyber Crimes are potential threats in virtual world equallyapplicable as compared to physical attacks.Cyber Crime Worldwide to steal information surreptitiously. Anonymity in the Internet offersorganized criminals to target not only home users, even business,Government agencies and the like. This can be performed from the of international legislation or cooperation between countries to aidin investigations and arrest. As a result of this nefarious activity oforganized criminals, who operate in the cyberspace, the globe isexperiencing a serious economic crisis. Cyber criminals or online into varying vectors. These are tabulated hereunder:Sl.No.Professionalpositions categoryFunctions and area ofoperation1. Programmers Develop the exploits and the malware used toCyber Crime.2. Distributors Trade and sell stolen data and as voucher for thegoods provided by other specialists.3. Tech. Experts Maintain the criminal enterprise’s IT infrastructure,including servers, encryption technology, database,etc.4. Hackers Persons who search for and exploit applications,systems, and network vulnerabilities.5. Fraudster Individuals, who create and deploy various socialengineering schemes, such as phishing and spam.6. Hosted systemprovidersProvide service of hosting of rogue servers and92 January - March, 2013