A Survey on Evolution of Cyber-Crime

The survey was done on the number of cyber-crimes committed between its inceptions with the invention of blue box to making hacking oriented operating systems which help the budding hackers learn penetration into various software technologies. At first the cyber-crimes were committed to spread various virus, worms just to crack down the system. Today the cyber criminals seek to earn major money, highly sensitive data, information, top secret files, etc. The paper includes evolution of cyber-crimes since 1970; the study tries to encapsulate major cyber-crime events which took place during the journey.