(BS) The increasing internationalisation of cybercrime, drug and human trafficking, financial fraud and other threat scenarios can only be successfully countered by global law enforcement authorities through organisational, legal and technical cooperation at the highest level. Police chiefs, task forces, researchers and industry representatives from all over the world agreed on this when they discussed global…
INTERPOL is fighting crime in the virtual space. A current white paper warns of a new quality of so-called “metacrime”. Solving such crimes will only work with a holistic approach. It sounds like science fiction, but it has long since become reality: metacrime, crime in the virtual space of the metaverse. At the World Economic…
(BS) Cybertrading is a scam. The criminals offer shares, foreign exchange or cryptocurrencies for sale on the internet. The catch: the assets do not exist. Together with European partners, the Göttingen police and public prosecutor’s office have taken action against fraudsters. The specialised cybercrime unit of the Central Criminal Investigation Department of the Göttingen Police…
The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) have succeeded in striking a decisive blow against the darknet marketplace “Kingdom Market”. In an internationally coordinated operation, its server infrastructure, which was distributed across several countries, was seized and the illegal provider was taken offline. The platform was mainly used…