Countering Cybercrimes in some Global South Countries: Modern Standing, Issues and Perspective

Introduction. This study provides a brief overview of the current state of cybercrime response in the Global South, with a focus on the advanced practices, challenges and prospects for the development of intra-state and inter-state cooperation. The author reveals the terminology used and compares it with the national approach.
Materials and methods. Methodologically, the study is based on the methods of formal logic, the system method, interpretation, formal-legal, historical-legal methods, as well as methods of jurislinguistics and linguojuristics as to linguistic features of the use of terms by law enforcement officers, legislators and researchers in foreign languages. The study is comparative in nature not only as to cyber laws, but also related regulation, including by-laws and guidelines. Civil and civil procedural law are applicable as lex specialis.
Study results. The Global South countries are leaders in cyber security in terms of legislation, technical, organizational measures, capacity building and artificial intelligence, sometimes surpassing the regional level in cybercrime prevention. Given the development of legal regulation, cybercrime covers a wide range of areas where information and communication technologies are used. One may define cybercrimes as the use of high technology for criminal purposes, and the Global South's response focuses on criminalization and penalization, preventive measures, economic, technical and suppressive initiatives, the use of technological advances in detection and investigation, and the monitoring and filtering of illegal content.
Discussion and conclusion. The lack of mechanisms to review the implementation of regional conventions specifically on cybercrime, differences in the data stored by service providers and platform owners and the timeframe for their storage, in the understanding of prohibited content, and the abundance of evaluation categories can be identified as problems that should be addressed by developing an additional protocol to the UN Convention against Cybercrime and improving national regulation. The lack of a common understanding of cybercrime can be mitigated by ratifying the mentioned international treaty by Global South countries. The leading countries in the field of cyber security have implemented technical and organizational initiatives that are of interest for implementation in domestic practice.

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