Cybersecurity

EU Report: Cybercriminals Targeting Profits and Children

The European Union’s police agency has recently noted that cybercriminals are exploiting online vulnerabilities and utilizing new technology to target more profitable victims.

Europol has recently published its annual Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment Report. In it, the agency has mentioned that digital data has become a major target for hackers and cybercriminals. The report further notes that “data security and consumer awareness are paramount for organizations”.

The annually published report is mainly intended to give law enforcement and legislators the tools to analyze cybercrime trends. The cybercrimes that raise the most concern among these agencies are often fraud, theft, and child sexual exploitation.

The report also mentions how “deep fake” technologies, technologies that make it seem as though someone is saying or doing something that they aren’t, raises concern for online child sexual exploitation.