Factors that Cause Cybercrime

The following are some of the factors that often trigger the occurrence of cybercrime that we need to be aware of. By knowing the following factors, we can introspect ourselves and try to eliminate the factors that cause cybercrime in our lives.

1. They are valuable data.

Everyone has their data privacy, often unconsciously the data we input into an application or system, has been recorded especially entering sensitive data such as account numbers, ATM pins, family data, etc. Most people are too easy to trust a website or application on the internet. Thus providing an opportunity for cybercrime perpetrators to commit crimes with the ease with which important data of people can be accessed by them. This has been done because of small security risks and does not require modern and sophisticated equipment, therefore, this is the driving factor for cybercrime in cyberspac. 

For example, data from hundreds of millions of BPJS Kesehatan members were suspected of being hacked and sold on raid forums forum at a price of around Rp 84 million.

2. Cybercrime actors have a great curiosity.

Conduct trials on their abilities and skills in applying information technology equipment, their excessive intelligence in accessing the internet can have a negative impact that is misused to achieve their desired goals. For example, in the Hacking case of the General Election Commission (KPU) website by Danny Firmansyah (2004). Where in this case the perpetrators managed to hack the National Election Tabulation site tnp.kpu.go.id by means of XSS or cross site scripting and SQL injection. The perpetrators changed the names of political parties to guava, Mbah Jambon, to Kolor Ijo.

3. Economic factors.

Economic factors are one of the biggest factors for cybercrime perpetrators to commit internet crimes. The difficult and urgent circumstances experienced by some of them, causing them to commit internet crimes so that they can meet their needs.

For example, there was a case a few years ago that may have been about the Wannacry ransomware holding personal data hostage and blackmailing victims if the data wanted to come back. That includes cyber sabotage and blackmail. Usually, this crime is done by infiltrating a logic bomb, computer virus, or a certain program so that data, computer programs, or computer network systems cannot be used, do not run as they should, or run as desired by the perpetrator.

4. Lack of digital education.

People who lack knowledge about technology in this digital era and narrow insights related to the existence of cybercrime cases on the internet, while information technology has developed rapidly makes it difficult for people to adjust in this era. Moreover, the government does not anticipate the community, and a lack of socialization is held in the community about the dangers of internet crime and forms of cybercrime.

5.  Weak software.

Some internet users do not care about the security of the software they use, they often take actions that make the security of their systems very easy to hack or intentionally press links without the security of those links. Not infrequently internet users prefer cheap software rather than choosing software that has an expensive price. We think that cheap software must have a security system that is very easy for criminals to eradicate
Because the software components are not good and quality, while if the software is expensive, it certainly has a security system that is difficult for criminals to eradicate this is due to the use of good and quality software components and systems.

6. Trivializing system security.

Sometimes users don't care about safety and perform actions that make the security of the system easy to hack. Or on purpose suppressing the link indiscriminately. Recommendations for the security system that we need to do such as, Create a save point or save point, remove bloatware, update software, activate a local account (Using the same Microsoft account as Microsoft email), turn off stalkerware and activate firewall and antivirus.

7. The Effect of Fake Ads
Some Internet users are very easily influenced by advertisements or texts from unknown sources. Believing fake advertisements or text messages saying that we have won something that is informed via SMS and advertisements, is very easy to influence people's trust. And usually advertisements like this give directions to us to fill out biodata as a fulfillment of the requirements (name, address, telephone number and others). Which in the end leads us to transfer some money.

8. Too public on social media. 

The absence of privacy limits that sometimes occur in society is one of the factors that often triggers crime, usually social media users always share their data on social media such as date of birth, photos (precious moments), achievements (certificates) location tags and so on. Without us realizing it, the information we share on social media is an important object for cybercrime perpetrators to commit crimes. Usually they take photos and valuable data on social media accounts. They edit it into negative content which is eventually spread or misused as material for threats.