Overview of the cyberscrime situation in Lithuania as of 2011.

1. CYBERCRIMECYBERCRIME
ININ
LITHUANIALITHUANIA
Mindaugas Kiškis
Prof. dr. Mykolas Romeris University
Žilvinas Sideravičius
Chief Invest., Police Department

2. Cyber Crime in Lithuania
 Intro
 Cybercrime trends in Lithuania
 International Co-operation
 Cyber Crime Case Study

3. EUROPE
LITHUANIA

4. IntroIntro (1)(1)
Police Department under the Ministry of the Interior
of the Republic of Lithuania is designated as a
competent authority to perform the functions
mentioned in Article 35 of the Convention on
Cyber Crime.
The direct executor – Cyber Crime Investigation
Board of the Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau
Contacts: cyberpolice@policija.lt

5. Police Department &Police Department &
Lithuanian Criminal Police BureauLithuanian Criminal Police Bureau

6. Cyber Crime Investigation BoardCyber Crime Investigation Board
CCIB main functions:
 Cyber-intelligence
 Pre-trial
Investigations
(of hacking, phishing, carding,
swindling, child pornography
and other crimes committed
in cyber space)
The Head of the Board
Markas Marcinkevičius

7. IntroIntro (2)(2)
 Mykolas Romeris University – leading social
science and police training institution
 Dept. of E-Business – legal, administrative and
business matters related to cyberspace
 Working on cybercrime matters as of 1995
 Actively engaged in cybercrime legislation
 Enforcement capacity projects

8. Mykolas Romeris UniversityMykolas Romeris University

9. Specific Cyber CrimeSpecific Cyber Crime
Crimes against security of electronic data
and information systems):
– Articles 196-198(2)
of the Criminal Code
introduced as of 26 September 2000 include:
• unlawful influence (interference) on electronic data
• unlawful influence (interference) on an information
system
• unlawful interception and use of electronic data
• unlawful connection to an information system
• unlawful disposal of installations, software,
passwords, login codes and other data

10. Non Specific CybercrimeNon Specific Cybercrime
 Non specific cybercrime (where internet
was a tool or means)
 Almost any criminal act aided by internet
or by other telecomunication technologies
 Crimes pertaining to intellectual property
are separate
 There is some overlap between crimes
and administrative violations

11. Case study 1: SwindlingCase study 1: Swindling

13. DominantDominant CCyberyber CCrimesrimes
in Lithuaniain Lithuania
– Incitement against Any National, Racial, Ethnic,
Religious or Other Group of Persons
– Creation and Activities of the Groups and Organisations
Aiming at Discriminating a Group of Persons or Inciting
against It
– Swindling
– Production of a Counterfeit Electronic Means of
Payment, Forgery of a Genuine Electronic Means of
Payment or Unlawful Possession of an Electronic
Means of Payment or Data Thereof
– Unlawful Use of an Electronic Means of Payment or Data
Thereof

14. SpectrumSpectrum of Cof Cyberyber CCrimesrimes in Lithuaniain Lithuania
Crimes
(art. of Criminal Code)
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Jan-Oct
Libel (154) 5 6 5 8 15 11
Insult (155) 1 2 6 4 1
Child Porn (162) 19
Rasism and Xenophobia (170) 1 12 66 23 90
Swindling (182) 9 4 47 14 134 43
Unlawful Interception and Use of
Electronic Data (198)
7 4 4 5 13 18
Counterfeit means of payment (214) 1 2 24 2
Use of means of payment (215) 1 4 28 12 72 137

15. Still small part of the totalStill small part of the total
Swindling and payment fraud:
3076 total cases in 2008
4540 cases in 2009

16. Case studyCase study 22: Phishing: Phishing

22. CyberCyber CCrime trendsrime trends
in Lithuaniain Lithuania
Number of criminal acts, where internet was
used as a mean, is consistently increasing
Year Number of crimes
2005 33
2006 33
2007 113
2008 139
2009 310
2010
(Jan-Oct)
340

23. CyberCyber CCrime trendsrime trends
in Lithuaniain Lithuania
Victims
Amount of Harm (in Litas)
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010
Jan-Oct
Legal
Persons
730395 - 29813 127639 269549 95145
Physical
Persons
65439 40000 3945 74503 128818 14415

24. Latency ofLatency of CCyberyber CCrimerime
 Provided statistics is about open investigations (not
actual convictions)
 Research suggests that in some areas latency is
80% or more
 E.g. in cases of electronic swindling conviction rate is
only 1%
 Financial institutions are very hesitant to work with
police due to possible leaks and image
 Some activities are not criminalized (e.g. id theft),
some are treated as administrative violations

25. CyberCyber CCrime trendsrime trends
in Lithuaniain Lithuania
Sex of
Criminals
Number of Crimes committed using the internet
as a tool or a mean
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010
(Jan-Oct)
Males 14 3 16 17 34 14
Females 4 1 3 3 3 9
Increasing of cyber crimes feminization!

26. OrganizedOrganized CCyberyber CCrimerime
in Lithuaniain Lithuania
Forms of Complicity
 Group of Accomplices
 Organised Group
 Criminal Association

27. OrganizedOrganized CCyberyber CCrimerime
in Lithuaniain Lithuania (2)(2)
Form of Complicity
Number of Crimes, committed by
accomplices using the internet as a tool
or a mean
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010
(Jan-Oct)
Group of
Accomplices
(Paragraph 2 Article 25 of CC)
2 2 3 - 20 62
Organised Group
(Paragraph 3 Article 25 of CC)
- 2 1 - 31 -
Criminal Association
(Paragraph 4 Article 25 of CC)
- - - - - -

28. Cybercrime is internationalCybercrime is international

29. INTERNATIONAL COINTERNATIONAL CO--OPERATIONOPERATION
Co-operation according to the
International Treaties, other
agreements;
International co-operation in the
training matters;
Participation in international
operations.

30. Legal frameworkLegal framework
for internationalfor international
co-operationco-operation
 Republic of Lithuania joined the
Cybercrime Convention as of January 22,
2004
 Joined additional protocol as of June 8,
2006

31. Case Study 3:Case Study 3: CallService.biz

32. Future perspectivesFuture perspectives
 Need for additional enforcement capacity
in Lithuania
 Need for immediate exchange of
information (joint database)
 Sanctions need to be increased
 More activities need to be criminalized
(e.g. domain squatting and cloaking)
 Perspective for pan-Baltic enforcement
network?

33. Do you have any questions?

34. Thanks for your
attention!!!
Mindaugas Kiškis, mkiskis@mruni.eu
Žilvinas Sideravičius, zilvinas.sideravicius@policija.lt