INTERNATIONAL CYBERCRIME TASKFORCE LAUNCHED IN EUROPE
September 1st, 2014
An international Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT) was launched September 1 to step up the fight against online fraudsters in the European Union (EU) and beyond.Housed in the Netherlands-based European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), J-CAT is a six-month pilot scheme to coordinate international investigations. It will gather relevant data from national repositories, governments and private partners to generate actionable intelligence and propose targets and networks for investigation. It covers threats such as malware coding, testing, distribution, botnets, ...
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