The National Gendarmerie: Dealing with 500 cyber crimes since the beginning of the year – Al-Hiwar Al-Jazaeryia

The departments specialized in cybercrime, led by the National Gendarmerie, have registered 500 cybercrime cases since the beginning of 2023.

Major Farid Dramshieh, on the national radio, warned that cybercrime is constantly increasing, jumping from 2,838 crimes in 2021 to 4,600 cases in 2022, recording 500 cybercrime cases since the start of this year.

Major Dramshieh noted that cybercrime includes extortion, threats, defamation, and infringement of personal freedoms and private life through social networks, as well as crimes of spreading false and misleading information, piracy, defamation, electronic harassment, and fraud, noting that between 65 and 75 percent of the cases dealt with concern people’s private lives. .

Dramshieh referred to efforts to sensitize citizens and intensify neighborhood work to encourage citizens to report and file complaints, pointing to the existence of a threat affecting children, so he warned against delving into virtual life and using false identities, announcing the handling of 200 cybercrime cases targeting children in 2021, and 193 cases in 2022.

In addition, the speaker noted that since 2000, the National Gendarmerie has been modernized and the Department for Combating Cybercrime has been established, as well as the formation of investigators of information and communication technologies, and the use of judicial letters of attorney internationally to arrest perpetrators, in conjunction with the enactment of many laws supporting the fight against cybercrime.

Darmchieh continued that the National Gendarmerie is betting on proactivity and vigilance, in addition to investigation, and also called on citizens to rationally use all electronic applications and install protection systems, ending with the disclosure of the organization of an awareness campaign in 2023 on electronic shopping, after the activation of the electronic commerce law.