Filimonov S.A.

Purpose. The study of the causes of poor results in fighting cybercrime. Methods. The methodological basis of this work is the dialectical method of cognition with application of the development, holistic and systemic principles. The paper used scientific and special legal methods: comparative, systemic and structural, theoretical and methodological and others. Changes in the international legislation to combat cybercrime are studied, practical results available in this field of combating crime on the part of the European Centre for Combating cybercrime (EU-3) are summarized and the existing practice of investigative and judicial authorities of the Russian Federation in the fight against cybercrime is analyzed. Results. Based on researching the dynamics of a sharp increase in the number of cybercrimes and computer fraud in particular the author draws the conclusions of the urgency to strengthen the fight against computer fraud by combining the efforts of law enforcement agencies of all countries in the world, of the mandatory criminalization of cybercrime in all states, of coordinated teamwork of all law enforcement agencies of Russia responsible to fight against computer fraud. The author draws a reasonable conclusion about the urgent need to strengthen the penalties for committing cybercrime, and makes proposals to coordinate the fight against cybercrime by all the institutions of civil society in Russia. Scientific novelty. It should be stated that up to the present time this problem hasn’t been researched enough in the Russian science of criminal law. Scientific novelty lies in the constructive study of the existing international conventions against computer fraud, in identifying direct contradictions in these regulations, in studying carefully the practice of the Russian Federation law enforcement agencies to combat cybercrime.