Threats and vulnerabilities associated with cybercrime with children and adolescents

Abstract

This scientific initiation article will address the main threats found in the virtual world, especially those that tend to reach children and adolescents, who currently use the tools available on the internet continuously and devolved. We will also show the penal aspects established in Brazilian law, as well as a statistic of the number of crimes of this kind practiced throughout the year 2018 and in the first months of 2019, making an analysis of growth or reduction of these. At the end of the day we will reflect, based on the studies and data collected, on the dangers that this public is considered vulnerable, when they navigate the world wide computer network without control and without the necessary expertise to detect a possible crime.