Trend of Cyber Crime in Nepal

Abstract

Over the last two decades, around the globe have moved into cyberspace and cloud environment in order to conduct their businesses. Many people spend a significant part of their daily life in cyberspace, creating and enjoying new types of social relationships which were not possible or financially affordable 20 years ago. However, criminals have identified rewards from online frauds therefore, the risks and threats have increased too. As in Nepal, statistics shows that cybercrime has been rapidly increasing than that of before. A different analysis shows that in coming years the cybercrime which is very harmful as the physical harm would grow more than is present. With the collaboration of different vendors, the cybercrime in Nepal is trying to decrease. As can be seen the most common cybercrime in Nepal is fake profile marketing in social media like face book, twitter, Instragram and so on. Because nowadays people in Nepal are mostly involved in social media and had become a trend to have a fake profile of other for the stalking or bullying purposes, and also they don’t know the consequences of having such crimes. The study deals with primary data which are collected from questionnaires from security sector, victim person, students of college and also connected with the ways to controlling cybercrime In Nepal. The data shows that the trends of cybercrime in Nepal has been growing rapidly and deeply too. Securities concerning agencies are simultaneously trying to control such crime. Even the Nepal Police has been involving in the intent of decreasing the cybercrimes. Having strong laws in the field of cyber may help in stopping the trends of cybercrime in Nepal. The percentage of cybercrime is to be higher than it was in the previous. One should stay alert for the upcoming threats in the field of internet technology. The trends of cybercrime in Nepal are more dangerous so need to be active than that of former and should also be focused on how to forbid the imminent threats and how can it be overcome in the future.