After centuries of trading being brought up as an efficient quotient to a culture based and organized by exchange and gift economy, a new global environment arose with steady growth. However, well-known crimes have taken a new approach to an expanding range of methods to attain goods, secure convenience and assert criminal activity in vulnerable territory [3].

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Because the borderless realm of the internet seemed unwary and endless, buyers didn’t shy away from illegal transactions. Most desired products included hard drugs, weapons, personal data, prohibited audiovisual material containing torture and other nonconsensual acts, and services such as hitmans, or black hat hackers and unethical developers. 

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All of these illicit goods and services are possible through undergoing on-line operations which are now tailored to accommodate and combine resources even for high profile violations, such as spyware monitoring, data collection and copyright infringements. All of it is done in specific ways to thrive under layers of agent-anonymity protocols and blend amidst hectic cyber security routines [4].

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These actions make a quantitative understanding of the phenomena harder to be obtained by bringing abstract concepts such as Information Warfare [5] and Malicious Softwares [6]. Although civilians are still many of the final targets, public organizations and private companies were also included in harmful cyber attacks, which makes joint defensive actions between private and public bodies an essential step in order to expand their individual spheres of protection.

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Said companies can also play dubious roles while developing new tech products for its consumers. Even though their development techniques may be adequate regarding cyber security, some technologies can be distorted to support illicit work, similarly to the usage of Generative Artificial Intelligence to support scam operations in messaging apps [7].  These same technologies have become a necessity in people’s lives, therefore enhancing danger of the exploitation of their privacy. 

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Considering the irrevocable consequences to population security and normality, while aiming for a different future where intervention has given place to prevention, the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime intends to work on encouraging cybersecurity practices, the evasion of insistent misuse of legal performance and, most importantly, on having mutual international assistance as a primary functioning strategy between UN members.