Europol launches the European Centre Against Migrant Smuggling to disrupt tech-enabled smuggling networks using intelligence, OSINT, and financial investigations to dismantle criminal operations

by | Mar 24, 2026

The new centre strengthens intelligence-led policing by combining OSINT, advanced analytics, and financial investigations to map criminal networks, identify high-value targets, and dismantle entire smuggling operations rather than individual cases. It will also focus...

Europol, supporting Operation Alice, leads a major global cybercrime crackdown, dismantling over 373,000 dark web sites trafficking illegal services from child abuse material to hacking tools and fraud

by | Mar 20, 2026

The operation, coordinated with law enforcement from 23 countries, led to the seizure of servers, electronic devices, and digital evidence, while identifying the alleged operator — a 35-year-old based in China — as well as hundreds of users engaged in illegal...

Europol coordinates its largest Referral Action Day, targeting terrorist audio propaganda across 40 platforms, flagging 17,000+ links with 77 % removed, exposing the rise of audio in online radicalisation

by | Mar 18, 2026

The operation, led by Europol’s European Counter Terrorism Centre and supported by partner countries and online service providers, focused specifically on audio material such as chants, speeches and nasheeds used by terrorist groups to spread ideology and attract...