Norway, Switzerland Latest Fighter Unit Of Europol On Cybercrime

Norway, Switzerland Newest Europol Cybercrime Unit Fighters

The team is struggling Europol cybercrime welcomes two new members. Norway and Switzerland were announced by new countries joining the action group the Agency, now under the leadership of the Netherlands.

In the course of the meeting April 18 of the Council joint task action group Cybercrime (j-cat), the chairmanship was transferred to Holland, after he was held in the UK and Germany.

The extension of the task force was announced on 18 April, as Norway and Switzerland were approved.

“The fight against cybercrime is one of our top national priorities. To succeed, we must rely on strong international cooperation. The joint task force Held on the actions of Cybercrime EC3-a convincing example of such cooperation. We are pleased to join J-cat today,” Ketil Haukaas, head of the National criminal investigation service Norway said in a statement.

Director of the Swiss Federal police, Nicoletta Della Valle, she said she has high hopes for joint efforts in the struggle of peoples against threats such as terrorism and cybercrime

J-cat was launched in September 2014 and is designed to address the threats of cybercrime not only in the European Union, but also abroad. Its membership includes members of the cyber-connection from 13 member States of the EU and partners and 15 law enforcement officers.

The target group is part of the European centre against Cybercrime, in March of this year he cooperated in the investigation and subsequent arrest of persons, in Romania and Italy for Bank fraud scored 1 million euros from the hundreds of customers 2 major banking institutions.

By 2017, the Internet organized a threat Assessment crimes, a list of developing and emerging cyber threats included malicious websites, infected the Internet of things (iot), data breach, sexual abuse of children online, fraud, and direct attacks on the banking network.

Sourse: sputniknews.com

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