The article provides a criminal legal analysis of the crime provided for in part. 2.4 tbsp. 2741 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation — unlawful access to objects of critical information infrastructure of the Russian Federation. The authors conducted a comparative study of the objects regulated by the federal law no. 187-FZ of July 26, 2017 “On the security of critical information infrastructure of the Russian Federation” and part. 2.4 tbsp. 2741 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, a legal assessment is given to criminal actions expressed in unlawful access using someone else’s account in the absence of such rights to it. The issues of qualification of crimes in the field of computer information are considered using examples of forensic investigative practice.
computer information, unauthorized access, critical information infrastructure objects, computer forensics, malicious computer programs
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