Interpol is an international criminal police organization with 195 member countries and aims at joint police cooperation to combat crime. It is a large communications network in which data, technical equipment and technical specialists are made available to one another as required in order to coordinate joint steps towards reconnaissance.
Interpol report
Interpol has now prepared a report based on data from the 195 member countries on suspected trends in criminality. According to this report, financial and cybercrime are the top concerns for police worldwide. It is assumed that these will increase significantly in the next three to five years. Crimes such as money laundering, ransomware, phishing and online fraud are particularly serious threats.
“Understanding and pre-empting crime trends is an absolute bedrock of policing, and INTERPOL's Global Crime Trend report offers an unparalleled picture of the global crime landscape as seen by police officers around the world.”
Interpol Secretary General Jürgen Stock ( source )
Understanding and preventing crime trends is an important basis of police work. Interpol's now published report shows a picture of the global crime landscape as perceived by police officers around the world.
The trend in Europe
In Europe, Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (OCSEA) is expected to increase over the next three to five years, according to Interpol. It has been noted that demand for livestreaming abuse in has increased in recent years and is likely to have increased during the pandemic. While remote child abuse occurs most frequently in Southeast Asia, cases have also recently been discovered in the European Union.
According to respondents, the top three threats currently facing Europe are phishing and online fraud (62 percent), money laundering (60 percent) and synthetic drug trafficking (57 percent).
What does what mean?
- Ransomware: Are malicious programs that e.g. B. links sent by email allow access to the computer owner's data and can lead to great damage. On the one hand, data can be stolen or the computer owners can be blackmailed.
- Phishing: Is the sending of fake emails that can trick people into falling for a scam. These cases are often discussed here on Mimikama.
- Online fraud: Particularly cheap bargains are often offered in fake shops that only offer advance payment. The “customer” paid, but the goods never arrived. Some of these fake shops also copy the pages of reputable companies. That's why it's always important to be suspicious when you have to make advance payments.
- Live streaming abuse: Is child abuse broadcast live on the Internet.
- Money laundering: If money is earned illegally, e.g. B. Drug trafficking, corruption, tax evasion, extortion, etc., money laundering is an attempt to feed this illegal money back into the legal financial and economic cycle.
Author: Elke Haberl, Mimikama
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Interpol , Handelsblatt , Standard
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