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The newly passed Cybercrime Bill 2026 has been welcomed as a timely and necessary law to tackle the growing misuse of social media and evolving digital threats.

MCA Public Services and Complaints Department head Datuk Seri Michael Chong said the legislation would help protect victims of scams, online harassment, extortion and reputational attacks, while lawyer Datuk Joy W. Appukuttan said it modernises Malaysia's outdated cybercrime laws to address offences such as identity theft, deepfakes, hacking and data misuse.


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00:00We are talking about this cyber crime and the bill, I was told, it was just passed.
00:14I'd love to let you know about cases we received, especially why it's so serious and why the government took
00:24it and have to get the bill passed in the parliament.
00:30Since the Covid-19 until now, just alone cases are more than 2,000.
00:36These alone, or the scammer, not alone, the scammer alone, they use this method, cyber crime method, to achieve their
00:47target.
00:47They use this to discredit the family if they don't pay.
00:52What they want is they want to demand money.
00:54If they don't get the money, they discredit them by using this social media.
00:59Examples are like putting the family photograph, innocent family photograph in the social media.
01:07Even children, grandchildren, whatever, school children, all these teenage people, they put the family photo inside and to discredit them.
01:20As a result, they all suffer.
01:22Now it's a time where something got to put a check, otherwise it's out of control.
01:32Anyone can come put you in the social media to extort you.
01:35The cyber crime bill, I think, when it went to the parliament's face and got it, and the Devan Rakhet
01:43had approved it on the 1st of July.
01:44I think it's a welcoming sign.
01:46You must understand that cyber crime is not isolated to Malaysia alone.
01:49This cyber crime bill was an initiative from the UN Convention on Cyber Crimes in 2024.
01:57So with that, you've got about 65 countries that signed, being signatories to it, Malaysia being one of them.
02:02So Malaysia is now putting into perspective an implementation of the cyber crime.
02:05The internet has no boundaries.
02:07Yes, the government is trying to limit the boundaries through access to children, but you'll find a way through it.
02:12Let's be realistic about it. There is ways, there is means.
02:15So what do you need? You need people to be disciplined, to be responsible, but unfortunately that's not the case.
02:25A lot of crimes are happening out there.
02:27So what kind of crimes are we talking about?
02:29We're talking about identity, stolen identity, fake, deep fake, impersonation, taking off your personal data, misusing it,
02:41interference to your computers, internet, social media, phones, everything.
02:47Fraud being committed using your name, particulars and all that.
02:51These are the realities that are happening down at the grassroot level.
02:56How is the authorities going to go and find these people if there's no proper legislation?
03:01The whole act was in 1997.
03:05So this cyber crime bill is so important for us that at least it nips the issues at the very
03:11bottom of the matter.
03:13We've gone past it. We've got so many issues.
03:16So what the act actually tries to do is try to be holistic.
03:20It's got 61 sections, so it's quite comprehensive.
03:23It covers, you know, from unauthorized access to computer systems, to access to committing fraud on another offence,
03:30illegal interception of computer data, deleting or altering or damaging your access or data, alright?
03:39Disrupting operations of your computer, you know? Hacking programs.
03:53Bagel.
03:53Wow.
03:53To get out of here.
03:53I have no idea.
03:53It's a daily basis.
03:53I have no idea.
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