Cyberterrorism as a new threat

He article examines one of the most dangerous spheres of cybercrime - cyberterrorism as a new society threat. Both domestic and foreign legislation absence of criminal law definition for “cyberterrorism” is discussed. The author establishes the key dimensions of cyberterrorism development in cybernetic space and identifies the issues of qualifying regarding to an act of cyberterrorism as a generally accepted terrorist act and its differentiation from an illegal tampering with critical informatic structure of the Russian Federation. The author also suggests such amendments to the current Russian criminal law legislation as addition the article 247.1 of Criminal Code of the Russian Federation with especially aggravating circumstance and explains the necessity of making explanations of the article 205 of Criminal Code of the Russian Federation by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.