How does a "man-in-the-middle attack" work? This cybercrime compromises the confidentiality of data (through eavesdropping) and integrity of data (by impersonating sender and/or receiver). Offenders hijack connections between clients and servers by creating two connections (offender and client, and offender and server). The purpose of this attack is to surreptitiously intercept, receive, and/or send information between client and server (Maras, 2014, p. Man-in-the-Middle Tutorial: Learn About Man-in-the-Middle Attacks, Vulnerabilities and How to Prevent MITM Attacks. In addition to hacking, cybercriminals can interfere with the functioning of computer systems and/or access to systems, services, and data. Interference can include suppressing, modifying, adding, transmitting, editing, deleting or otherwise damaging data, systems, and services. The Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention prohibitsĭata interference, which is defined as the "intentional … damage, deletion, deterioration, alteration or suppression of computer data without right," under Article 4. The Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention also prohibits Data interference is also proscribed under Article 29(2)(a) of the African Union Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection of 2014, and Article 8 of the Arab League's Arab Convention on Combating Information Technology Offences of 2010.
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