Cybercrime & Cyberattacks: Identifying reporting gaps and the story behind them
Previous research from the CYBERSPACE project on reporting on cybercrimes and cyberattacks showed poor results in terms of frequency, immediacy, and content quality. Public and private organizations remain still far from proper reporting, which in turn could support effective preventative responses and enhance cybersecurity. But why is this happening? Follow up research by the CYBERSPACE […]
Report cybercrimes and get your data back
In October 2022 the Dutch National police performed an intervention on the Deadbolt ransomware, recovering over 150 decryption keys. The keys belong to victims of the Deadbolt ransomware that filed a police report in one of the 13 countries that shared police report information before the action. With this action the Dutch police undermined the […]
Cybercrime & Cyberattacks: A matter of different involvement, interest and influence
Effective reporting on cybercrime and cyberattacks remains crucial in preventing and countering existing and evolving threats in the cyber domain. However, despite the acknowledged value of identifying, data gathering, analysis and learning from cybersecurity incidents, reporting on such, once occurred, records low levels from various public and private organisations. The CYBERSPACE Research Project, funded by […]
CC-DRIVER & CYBERSPACE WEBINAR:
Next Tuesday, 20th September 2022, at 12:00 CEST CC-DRIVER and CYBERSPACE will be joining forces against cybercriminality and discuss the current EU cybercrime landscape. The Information Security Forum (ISF), in their work as a partner in the CC-DRIVER project, will be presenting the results of their policy gap analysis and discuss their analytical framework for […]
Copyright infringement as a form of cybercrime
What is copyright? Copyright (or author’s right) is a term that commonly refers to a regulation or set of regulations that define the scope and protect the rights of creators of literary (including software), dramatic, musical, and artistic works in terms of how the work is used and protection against unauthorized use. In most European […]
Call for External Stakeholder Board Members
The CYBERSPACE project is currently looking for experts in the field of cybersecurity to join our Stakeholder Board. The members of our Stakeholder Board will assist CYBERSPACE by shaping our research with their experience, providing valuable feedback on the project’s reports and outputs and collaborating with a network of other domain experts to discuss the […]
“If you see something, say something” but “Who you gonna call?” – Problems in the reporting of cybercrime
The references in the title represent two key problems of cybercrime prevention to date. The former is a campaign slogan created for the New York Metropolitan Transport Authority (MTA) after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, later adopted by the US Department of Homeland Security. The slogan was supposed to encourage members of the […]
EC awards contract to CYBERSPACE consortium to enhance cybersecurity in Europe
The European Commission has awarded a €3.2 million contract to the CYBERSPACE consortium, comprising 11 partners from eight EU countries, to pursue a three-year project funded by the Internal Security Fund — Police to enhance cybersecurity across the EU. The project aims to improve information sharing, develop investigative tools, and advance cooperation between European governments, law enforcement agencies (LEAs), businesses and the public to better detect, report, prevent and respond to cybercrime. Enhancing cybersecurity in […]