Europol’s report Organised Crime Online highlights trends in cyber‑attacks, online fraud, and child sexual exploitation, and addresses emerging AI‑assisted crimes to protect victims

The report finds that cyber-criminal networks increasingly rely on service-based business models—such as malware-as-a-service and phishing-kits—while exploiting encryption, automation and large volumes of stolen data to evade detection. It further shows that Europol’s coordinated international operations, forensic capabilities and infrastructure takedowns remain essential to disrupting these fragmented and rapidly evolving online ecosystems…