CYBER TERRORISM: A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY
AUTHOR – JASHVI DODHIA, STUDENT AT MKES COLLEGE OF LAW
BEST CITATION – JASHVI DODHIA, CYBER TERRORISM: A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY, INDIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL REVIEW (IJLR), 5 (2) OF 2025, PG. 56-60, APIS – 3920 – 0001 & ISSN – 2583-2344.
This article is published in the collaborated special issue of M.K.E.S. College of Law and the Institute of Legal Education (ILE), titled “Current Trends in Indian Legal Frameworks: A Special Edition” (ISBN: 978-81-968842-8-4).
ABSTRACT
Information technology has opened doors of opportunity for the world by creating multiple sources for the growth of people’s financial infrastructures. With over 900 million internet users, India was the second largest online market in the world, behind China.[1] Cyberspace runs in the veins of modern digital transactions, businesses, and other essential services. But where there is power, there will be misuse of power. With the invention of cyberspace, there has also been an increase in cybercrimes. Criminals use many tactics to scam people and extort money from them. There is a lot of unawareness and ignorance among the citizens, due to which people get scammed. The slow process of the executive and judiciary also adds to the cybercrimes every day. One of the most recent types of cybercrime is digital arrest. Due to people’s lack of knowledge and awareness, they think that one can be digitally arrested now and become vulnerable and end up falling into the traps of these criminals. Cyberattacks have the tendency to depict lethal, non-lethal, and psychological well-being of the citizens, public confidence of the government bodies, and political attitudes of the parties. Even terrorist groups use cyberspace to achieve their motives. Cyber terrorism imposes a threat on national security.[2]
Keywords: Cyber Crime, cyber terrorism, cyber law, Information Technology Act, 2000
[1] https://www.statista.com/topics/2157/internet-usage-in-india/
[2] Shiv Raman, Nidhi Sharma, Cyber Terrorism in India: A Physical Reality or Virtual Myth, 5, 2, (special issue) IJLHR, 133-135, 2019, https://journals.indexcopernicus.com/api/file/viewByFileId/783266.pdf.