The expert article responds to the ever-increasing number of criminal activities committed in cyberspace. The reader is presented with information on the development of cybercrime, surveys by Esset and Avast and also explanations of some important terms that the authors have tried to define, based on the current knowledge of the issue of committing crime in cyberspace from the perspective of the Chief Commissioner, assigned to the Department of Economic Crime of the SKPV, an academic worker and current available sources, mainly professional texts from police and security practice.