CiberData. Cibercrimen, Derecho y Sociedad Digital

Novedades y actividades

Mariana Noelia Solari Merlo — 2025-12-04

Presentación

Mariana Noelia Solari Merlo — 2025-12-04

Entrevista con Bernardino Cortijo Fernández

Noelia Valenzuela García — 2025-12-04

Criminal policy and social cohesión. Cybercrime as a pattern

Luis Ramón Ruiz Rodríguez — 2025-12-04

The rise of cybercrime to the category of major criminal phenomena is driven both by objective data that confirm this reality and by a good dose of overacting that significantly influences its nature, scope, and scale. Determining the extent to which criminal policy on technological crime is more closely related to the protection of legally protected interests than to purely social-cohesion objectives is one of the most significant challenges for upcoming criminal-law transformations.

Unsafe Play

Esther Nanclares González — 2025-12-04

This study explores how digital communities related to video games can contribute to online sexual victimization. Approximately 20% of a sample of 1,812 adult players in Spain reported having experienced this form of violence. The findings reveal an association between sexual victimization and various sociodemographic factors, and identify usage patterns and risk factors that increase the likelihood of encountering such experiences. By making digital violence visible, this research contributes to the design of more effective prevention policies aimed at fostering safer, more inclusive, and more responsible gaming communities.

Possible Regulatory Models of Ethical Hacktivism in Spanish Legislation

María José Rodríguez Mesa — 2025-12-04

Ethical hacking shares with illicit hacking the core conduct of accessing an information system without authorization by bypassing established security measures but differs solely in its preventive purpose. This raises the question of whether the subjective element is sufficient to exclude criminal liability in the absence of prior authorization from the system owner or the data subjects. While considering personal privacy as the protected legal interest would preclude the legalization of ethical hacktivism, understanding it as the security of information systems would allow exceptions when the conduct contributes to system protection. This paper examines the compatibility of bug bounty and Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) models with the Spanish criminal framework, emphasizing the need to adapt current legislation, particularly Article 197 bis of the Spanish Criminal Code. Two regulatory approaches are proposed: requiring specific intent to obtain data or establishing a criminal exemption clause for those who detect and report vulnerabilities in accordance with recognized protocols. Adopting a CVD policy would enhance system resilience, provided that organizations are capable of appropriately managing vulnerability reports.

Criptomonedas y fraude: estafas de inversión

Patricia Saldaña-Taboada — 2025-12-04

Las criptomonedas han pasado de ser una innovación en el comercio electrónico a una herramienta para la comisión de delitos. En los últimos años han atraído a criminales que las utilizan para favorecer el desarrollo de estafas de inversión. Estas estafas no dependen solo de la tecnología, sino de estrategias de captación altamente persuasivas, ingeniería social y, más recientemente, el uso de Inteligencia Artificial para crear contenido falso. La prevención debe centrarse en disuadir estos mecanismos de manipulación más que en la prohibición del uso de los criptoactivos.

Possible Criminal Behaviors in Happy Slapping: A Form of Cyberbullying

Luis Rodríguez Moro — 2025-12-04

This work analyzes the possible criminal responsibilities of subjects who participate in the Cyberbullying conduct known as Happy Slapping, in which some subjects assault another or others with the aim of having it recorded with a mobile phone and disseminated through ICT.