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                                    83
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. LIU, PARKER, WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed 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-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD00522-01-5
 S. 83                               2
 
 FY,  DAMAGE, DESTROY, RECORD, OR TRANSMIT INFORMATION WITHIN A COMPUTER,
 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.