The challenges posed by cybercrime and cyber-enabled crimes are recognised at national and international levels. Numerous measures have been taken both by the European Union and the Council of Europe to effectively counter cyber offences. This crime area has also been included in the European Agenda...

BlackShades was an organisation developing and selling malicious software (malware) that enabled buyers to infect computers and remotely take over and control the operations of the infected computers, and perform distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyber-attacks, among other things. An FBI...

On 19 and 20 November 2014, the strategic meeting on cybercrime titled ‘Cybercrime - rising to the challenges of the 21st century’ was held at the Eurojust premises in The Hague. More than 40 international judicial and police experts in the field of cybercrime participated, including representatives...