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The paper is based on the analysis of the provisions of the Okinawa Charter "Global information society", decisions of the UN Congresses on crime prevention and criminal justice, as well as relevant resolutions of the UN General Assembly to establish the state of organizational and regulatory support for countering cyber challenges and threats, as well as cybercrime in the global information space. The relevance of this topic is evidenced by the increasing level of cyber challenges and threats, and it’s scale growth. Thus, the Russian security services have repelled about 25 million cyber attacks of different kinds of during the World Cup (2018). In conclusion the discussed issues the proposals we made for the further development of international law, especially concerning the development of artificial intelligence technologies, as well as the use of robotics can be taken into account and reflected in the draft of UN Convention on information security.

Consolidation of international efforts plays a crucial role in combating cybercrime the same way as in counteracting to terrorism, drug trafficking and other offenses of cross-border nature. The results of a critical analysis of the structure and content of the major provisions of the Budapest European Convention of 23 November 2001 (ETS No. 185) are presented. The paper provides a comparative analysis of the Convention and the Russian legislation from the point of view of organizational and legal regulation of fight against computer crime. The accent is made on terminological aspects of criminal and criminal procedure law in the field of computer information. Particular attention is drawn to the critical consideration of issues of international cooperation in the light of new challenges and threats of an increasingly confrontational inter-state relations. The conclusion substantiates the need for the adoption of the relevant United Nations Convention with proposals on the content of its main statements.