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🎉 We join @Eurojust in celebrating its 20th anniversary!
🤝 Our close cooperation is essential to effectively assist 🇪🇺 national authorities in the fight against serious & organised crime and terrorism.
Read Executive Director Catherine De Bolle's #Eurojust20 essay here ⤵️
RT @Eurojust: 📘 Today's #Eurojust20 essay:
'Partners against crime: 20 years of judicial and law enforcement cooperation'
- Catherine De Bolle, Executive Director…
📢 Last chance to register for the 6th Global Conference on Cryptocurrencies! 📢
Happening in partnership with @INTERPOL_HQ & @BaselInstitute
More info and registration ➡️ https://www.europol.europa.eu/publications-events/events/6th-global-conference-criminal-finances-and-cryptocurrencies
🔒 The best protection against ransomware is prevention.
📽️ Follow these tips to keep your data safe.
👮 And remember: if you ever fall victim to a ransomware attack: #DontPay & report the crime to your national authorities!
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢
Do you work in digital forensics & have a topic you would like to share during the Forensic Experts Forum 2022? Send us your proposal!
⚠️ Submission Deadline: 15 Oct ⚠️
Details here ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/publications-events/events/forensic-experts-forum-2022-conference #FEF2022
⚠️ One way law enforcement fights organised crime is by targeting how they communicate.
👮 In episode 2 of The Europol Podcast, we go behind the scenes of Operation Greenlight – a major operation against encrypted criminal communications.
🔊 Listen ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/europol-podcast/episode-2-operation-greenlight-part-1-international-sting
📅 The 4th edition of #EuropolIPConf will take place in 🇮🇹 Rome from 27-28 Oct!
Criminal networks exploit IP vulnerabilities in times of crisis. How can law enforcement & the private sector join forces to fight back?
Register now ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/publications-events/events/2022-europol-intellectual-property-crime-conference-%E2%80%93-rome-italy @IACC_GetReal @GDF
⚠️ Protecting children against online predators is one of our top priorities.
👮 In Ep1 of The Europol Podcast we talk to dedicated specialists who are making the Internet a safer place.
Want to help? Visit our #TraceAnObject website.
🔊 Listen here ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/europol-podcast/episode-1-protecting-vulnerable-children
🔜Coming in September: 9th EDEN Conference on Data Protection in Law Enforcement, 19/20 September in The Hague. Debate #dataprotection in #LawEnforcement with Europol's Data Protection Experts Network (#EDEN).
📢 There’s still time to register for the 6th annual Global Conference on Criminal Finances & Cryptocurrencies!
Europol is organising this event with @INTERPOL_HQ & @BaselInstitute
📍 Register before 15 Aug to secure your spot. Details ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/publications-events/events/6th-global-conference-criminal-finances-and-cryptocurrencies
📸 #Capture22 is now open for submissions!
👮 Are you a law enforcement officer with an eye for photography? Polish off your camera lens & submit a photo to our annual competition.
Details ➡️ https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/europol-photo-competition
🚨 Travelling gang of South American thieves dismantled after robberies in France & Spain.
👮 4 suspects were arrested & large quantities of material recovered as a result of the close cooperation between 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 & 🇨🇱 authorities.
Press release ➡️ https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/travelling-gang-of-south-american-thieves-dismantled-after-robberies-in-france-and-spain #EMPACT
Last week we celebrated #NoMoreRansom’s 6th anniversary, but do you know how the tool works?
1️⃣ Upload the encrypted files or ransom note
2️⃣ Read the provided manual
3️⃣ Download the tool & remove the malware.
📽️ Last month, @CGalzeranoEU presented our annual EU Terrorism Situation & Trend Report at the @EP_Justice Committee meeting.
🇪🇺 The report provides the most comprehensive & up-to-date intelligence picture on terrorism in the EU.
Download #TESAT2022 ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/publication-events/main-reports/european-union-terrorism-situation-and-trend-report-2022-te-sat
🔊 The first episode of The Europol Podcast “Protecting Vulnerable Children” is out now!
👮 Find out how Europol worked with police around the 🌍 to take down the #Boystown forum, an online platform sharing child abuse images.
👂 Full episode here ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/europol-podcast/episode-1-protecting-vulnerable-children
⚠️ Beware scammers impersonating Europol officers!
🛑 Europol never contacts members of the public directly to request immediate action or divulge personal information. This is a scam & should be reported.
💬 Europol Executive Director Catherine De Bolle: "Law enforcement investigations across the 🇪🇺 show that there is an organised crime component behind most #EnviCrime schemes, often fronted by legal business ventures."
📰 Press release ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/what-we-know-about-dirty-business-of-environmental-crime-in-age-of-climate-change
📣 Out Now: "Environmental Crime in the age of climate change."
🌱 #EnviCrime generates millions of euros of dirty money every year. Our new threat assessment examines the link between serious & organised crime and climate change.
Download it here ⤵️ https://www.europol.europa.eu/publications-events/publications/environmental-crime-in-age-of-climate-change-2022-threat-assessment
🚨 10 arrests for sexual exploitation in France, Spain & Portugal.
🇫🇷🇪🇸🇵🇹🇧🇷 police, supported by Europol & @Eurojust, dismantled a criminal network suspected of having exploited more than 100 victims.
Details ➡️ https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/10-arrests-for-sexual-exploitation-in-france-spain-and-portugal #EMPACT
🚨 49 individuals across Europe arrested in major blow to eels trafficking.
Over 27.7k inspections were carried out across Europe during Operation Lake VI, leading to the seizure of 1,255 kilograms of glass eels, worth EUR 1.9 million.
More ➡️ https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/49-individuals-across-europe-arrested-in-major-blow-to-eels-trafficking #EMPACT
This week Europol’s Innovation Lab stepped into the #metaverse!
🇪🇺 law enforcement authorities joined academics & the private sector for a virtual event exploring the challenges of policing digital alternate universes.
The outcome of the event will feed into a Europol report.
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