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                                   6794
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 14, 2025
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 Introduced  by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime  of
   larceny by cyber extortion
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (g) of subdivision 2 of  section  155.05  of  the
 penal  law, as added by section 4 of part O of chapter 56 of the laws of
 2024, is amended and a new paragraph (h) is added to read as follows:
   (g) By deed theft. A person commits deed theft when such person:
   (i) Intentionally alters,  falsifies,  forges,  or  misrepresents  any
 written instrument involved in the conveyance or financing of real prop-
 erty, such as a residential or commercial deed or title, with the intent
 to  deceive,  defraud,  or unlawfully transfer or encumber the ownership
 rights or a portion thereof of a residential or commercial property; or
   (ii) with intent to defraud, misrepresents themselves as the owner  or
 authorized  representative of residential or commercial real property to
 induce others to rely on such  false  information  in  order  to  obtain
 ownership or possession of such real property; or
   (iii)  with  intent  to defraud, takes, obtains, or transfers title or
 ownership of real property by fraud, misrepresentation, forgery,  larce-
 ny, false pretenses, false promise, or any other fraudulent or deceptive
 practice[.]; OR
   (H) BY CYBER EXTORTION.
   A  PERSON  OBTAINS PROPERTY BY CYBER EXTORTION WHEN WITH THE INTENT TO
 OBTAIN PROPERTY FROM ANOTHER PERSON OR ENTITY LOCATED IN  THE  STATE  OF
 NEW  YORK,  SUCH  PERSON REMOVES OR OTHERWISE REMEDIATES THE IMPACT OF A
 SET OF MACHINE LANGUAGE INSTRUCTIONS THAT RESTRICTS ANOTHER PERSON'S  OR
 ENTITY'S  ACCESS  TO  THE  OTHER PERSON'S OR ENTITY'S COMPUTER, COMPUTER
 SYSTEM, COMPUTER NETWORK, OR ANY DATA THEREIN, THAT IS DESIGNED TO MODI-
 FY, DAMAGE, DESTROY, RECORD, OR TRANSMIT INFORMATION WITHIN A  COMPUTER,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00522-01-5
              

 A. 6794                             2
 
 COMPUTER  SYSTEM,  OR COMPUTER NETWORK OR RENDER INOPERABLE OR OTHERWISE
 MODIFY SUCH PERSON'S OR ENTITY'S COMPUTER, COMPUTER SYSTEM, OR  COMPUTER
 NETWORK  WITHOUT THE INTENT OR PERMISSION OF THE OWNER OF SUCH COMPUTER,
 COMPUTER  SYSTEM, COMPUTER NETWORK, OR ANY DATA CONTAINED THEREIN, HERE-
 INAFTER REFERRED TO AS MALICIOUS COMPUTER INSTRUCTIONS, AND  THE  PERSON
 INTENDED   TO  IMPLEMENT  AND  DID  IMPLEMENT  SUCH  MALICIOUS  COMPUTER
 INSTRUCTIONS, THREATENED TO IMPLEMENT WHETHER OR NOT THE PERSON INTENDED
 TO IMPLEMENT SUCH MALICIOUS COMPUTER INSTRUCTIONS, OR, EVEN THOUGH  SUCH
 INSTRUCTIONS  WERE  NOT IMPLEMENTED, STATED THAT SUCH MALICIOUS COMPUTER
 INSTRUCTIONS WERE IMPLEMENTED ON THE PERSON'S OR ENTITY'S COMPUTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.