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As we know crime against women is on a rise in all fields.Every second, one woman in India becomes a victim of cyber crimes and now the new platform is the online space where a woman’s dignity, privacy and security are increasingly being challenged every moment. Trolling, abusing, threatening, stalking, voyeurism, body-shaming, defaming, surveillance, revenge porn and other forms of indecent representation of women are rampant in the cyber world. In cyber crimes against women, the effect is more mental than physical while the focus of the present laws ensuring women’s security is more on physical than mental harm. It is true that the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) of India does not maintain any separate record of cyber-crimes against women. Technology is the resource used by some perpetrators who target to defame women by sending obscene WhatsApp messages, e-mail, and stalking women by using chat rooms, websites, and worst of all by developing pornographic videos, mostly created without their consent, spoofing e-mails, morphing of images for pornographic content by using various softwares available online. The present study aims to analyze various types of cybercrimes that can be inflicted upon a women and how they adversely affect her. The study also briefly examine upon the various laws that exist to protect women in such cases such as the Information Technology Act (2000) and the Criminal Amendment Act (2013). This study suggests several remedies to counter the ever increasing cybercrime against women in India. At the conclusion the focus is upon the options available to the victims to cybercrime and the changes required in legal system to effectively curb the rising spirits of cyber criminals.