POLICE AND COMPANIES FLOCK WORLDWIDE TO JOIN EUROPOL’S RANSOMWARE PROJECT
April 1st, 2017
A SIGNIFICANT number of law enforcement and private partners have joined European police cooperation body Europol’s global ‘No more ransom’ project, designed to halt the growing threat of ransomware. There are now 76 participants in the project, which was launched last July (2016) by the Dutch National Police, Europol, IT firm Intel Security and cybercrime specialists Kaspersky Lab. A Europol statement stressed that partners came from all continents, showing “that ransomware is a worldwide problem that needs to be and will be fought together.” The ...
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