Beijing, February 23 (Reporter Zhang Su) The Supreme People's Procuratorate held a press conference on "Punishing Cybercrime in Accordance with Law and Helping Comprehensive Governance of Cyberspace" on February 23. "Overall, the current trend of cybercrime is frequent and high. Ge Xiaoyan, a member of the party group and deputy procurator general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, said at the meeting.
According to the data reported at the meeting, from January to November 2023, the procuratorate prosecuted a total of 280,000 people for various cybercrimes, an increase of 355%, which accounts for 18 percent of all criminal offenses8%。
Ge Xiaoyan further pointed out that the current trend of cybercrime is characterized by the following characteristics: first, telecommunication network fraud and related crimes have increased significantly; Second, it is accompanied by new technologies and new business forms, and the black and gray industry accelerates iterative upgrading; Third, traditional crimes have migrated to cyberspace, and cybercrimes have become increasingly complex. Fourth, crimes that threaten data and information security are common and frequent, endangering the healthy development of the digital economy.
She said that new types of cybercrimes using the metaverse, blockchain, and binary** platforms as gimmicks are constantly emerging, and virtual currencies have become an important soil for breeding and fueling cybercrimes.
In this regard, the procuratorial organs severely punish cybercrime in accordance with the law to maintain network security and social stability. Among them, the procuratorate focused on the grim situation of illegally obtaining and providing personal information as a black industry for cybercrime, strengthened the full-chain crackdown on upstream information collection, provision, resale and other links, and prosecuted more than 7,300 people for crimes of infringing on citizens' personal information in the first 11 months of 2023.
At the same time, the procuratorate focused on the development of the digital economy, focusing on punishing the crime of illegally obtaining business data and user data of online platforms, as well as the crime of online infringement and piracy, and prosecuted more than 1,300 people for crimes endangering the security of computer information systems and more than 1,400 people for online infringement of intellectual property rights in the first 11 months of last year.
Talking about the next step, Ge Xiaoyan said that the procuratorial organs will adhere to the combination of crackdown, governance, and prevention, and give full play to their procuratorial functions, so as to provide a strong legal guarantee for maintaining network security, promoting network governance, and creating a clear cyberspace. (ENDS).
*: China News Network.