Five suspects responsible for EUR 38 million VAT fraud scheme arrested

Europol supports EPPO-led investigation against criminals responsible for value-added tax fraud in the trade of more than 10 000 cars Today, a team of over 2 000 tax, customs... Read more »

45 arrests in crackdown on Albanian-speaking criminals flooding Europe with cocaine

Support to actions across Europe against large-scale importers and wholesalers of drugs from Latin America An international operation involving judicial and law enforcement authorities in seven countries has resulted... Read more »

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OLAF’s work against waste trafficking helps Italian authorities stop illicit waste

The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) has recently been active in fighting illicit waste trafficking from the European Union. OLAF’s alerts and intelligence have already helped the Italian authorities block... Read more »

Europol. Ten hackers arrested for string of SIM-swapping attacks against celebrities

Criminals stole over USD 100 million in cryptocurrencies by hijacking phone numbers A total of 8 criminals have been arrested on 9 February as a result of an international... Read more »

Europol warning on the illicit sale of false negative covid-19 test certificates

As long as travel restrictions remain in place due to the pandemic, it is very likely that criminals will seize the opportunity of producing and selling fake COVID-19 test... Read more »

Romanian duo arrested for running malware encryption service to bypass antivirus software

Two Romanian suspects have been arrested yesterday for allegedly running the CyberSeal and Dataprotector crypting services to evade antivirus software detection. These services have been purchased by more than... Read more »

Covid-19 chiefs of police working group: fighting the pandemic and criminals together

Today, 12 November, Europol’s Executive Director, Catherine De Bolle and Vittorio Rizzi, Deputy Director-General of Public Security in Italy, co-chaired the third working group on COVID-19 crime threats and... Read more »

Here’s how outsmart criminals abusing the online shopping experience this holiday season

New awareness campaign focuses on e-retailers ahead of Cyber Weekend The biggest retail season of the year is around the corner, and you do not even need to leave... Read more »

No More Ransom: how 4 millions victims of ransomware have fought back against hackers

While the world is in the grip of a coronavirus outbreak, another virus is quietly wreaking havoc. Although this virus has been around for years, its cases have been... Read more »

Europol, It’s the most wonderful time of the year… to lock up these criminals

30\11\2016 – More than 60 criminals appear on the Europe’s Most Wanted fugitives list (www.eumostwanted.eu).  Murderers, kidnappers, terrorists, drugs traffickers etc – all of them are convicted or suspected... Read more »