Computer undercover agent

Comparative law report

Abstract

Derived from Virtual Globalization and the advances of the new Information and Communication Technologies, the Internet has emerged as an essential tool in our daily lives, implementing new forms of communication, work and leisure. But, despite all this modernity, concepts such as phishing, malware, ransomware, cryptojacking have emerged in society; which, added to others of a more subversive connotation such as cyberwar, hybrid threats, etc., have conditioned the International Community to favor a common resilience, as a unison way of combating cybercrime. For this, the Council of Europe forged, the Convention on Cybercrime. Public and private international law treaty, with which all member countries undertake to reconfigure their legal and procedural system, favoring the implementation of new forms of investigation with which to deal with contemporary organized crime networks, characterized by their decentralization and transnationality, thus emerging a recent procedural figure of police investigation, the Computer Undercover Agent.