Police forces across Europe could get data from net firms almost immediately under new European Commission plans. The proposals aim to help police act quickly in the wake of terror…
Tag: Europol
Technology behind 'all serious crime"
Technology is now at the “root” of all serious criminality, says Europe’s police agency. The returns generated by document fraud, money laundering and online trade in illegal goods helps to…
Avalanche: Online crime network hit in global operation
One of the world’s biggest networks of hijacked computers has been dismantled after a four-year investigation, the EU law enforcement agency Europol says. The Avalanche network was used to target…
Secret Europol terror data found online
A police officer working for Europol exposed sensitive data about security investigations to the internet. By Leo Kelion, Technology desk editor The European Union’s law enforcement agency acknowledged the error…
Malware is making ATMs 'spit cash'
A Russian cybersecurity firm has issued a warning about a spate of remotely coordinated attacks on cash machines. Hacks of banks’ centralised systems had made groups of machines issue cash…
Europol supports cross-continental operation to bring down payment card fraudsters
Cross-continental operation nabs carders. On 14 and 15 November 2016, the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation, the Spanish Guardia Civil, the British West Midlands Regional Cyber Crime Unit together with…