Europol’s European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2023 (TE-SAT)| Europol
Overall results include: 50 arrests Seizures of almost 5 tonnes of hashish and 2 tonnes of cocaine Seizure of equipment, including boats, 350HP engines, almost 4 000 litres of gasoline, vehicles, trailers, jams detectors and beacons used for tracking shipments. The year-long investigation discovered that the criminal network had established a multi-product trafficking scheme with a two-way supply chain. This...| Europol
Simultaneous actions were also carried out across the globe against the users of this platform, resulting in 119 arrests, 208 property searches and 97 knock and talk measures. This international sweep was led by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Dutch National Police (Politie), with a command post set up at Europol’s headquarters on the action day...| Europol
The offenders targeted Ukraine and supporting countries, including many EU Member States. Between 14 and 17 July, a joint international operation, known as Eastwood and coordinated by Europol, targeted the pro-Russian cybercrime network NoName057(16). The actions led to the shutdown of several hundred servers worldwide, while the group's central server infrastructure was taken offline.| Europol
Cybercriminals around the world have suffered a major disruption after law enforcement and judicial authorities, coordinated by Europol and Eurojust, dismantled key infrastructure behind the malware used to launch ransomware attacks.| Europol