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Edvardas Sileris

Edvardas Sileris

Sep 22, 2026

LauraHOST
6:41
What has been the impact of law enforcement operations and does it reflect on the current landscape?
6:47
Yes, you are right that ransomware was treated as one of the main priorities of law enforcement and focus our efforts towards disruption of key facilitators, so either it's initial access brokers, either it's encryption services, etc., or payment services, because we think that actually we don't have enough capacities and our position is not very comfortable to investigate case by case.
7:15
We want to investigate all the infrastructure and ecosystem of one particular ransomware family.
7:22
Why is it so impactful as a crime? Because it paralyzes more or less all ecosystems.
7:28
So, for example, if a hospital is under attack, actually it's long-lasting consequences because you cannot provide some medical services, you cannot treat patients, etc.
7:39
And sometimes it takes months or in some exceptional cases even up to one year to restore services.
7:46
Compared to, for example, fraud cases, these losses are much higher there, but impact is much bigger in ransomware because actually On a daily basis, our life is more and more dependent on digital infrastructure and services.
10:47
My question is, what strategies or policies will contribute to helping Europol and its stakeholders and partners to combat cybercrime in the current and future threat landscape?
CarlottaMODERATOR
2:47
The floor is yours, Edvardas.
2:49
Thank you very much, uh, Sh- so Charlotta.
2:52
So let's go back to Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment, as we call the IOCTA.
2:58
So it's, uh, version 2026, and, uh, we started in 2014.
3:03
It was first one.
3:04
Uh, so what we are doing with this report, actually, it's, uh, our flagship, uh, report of, uh, European Cybercrime Center, where we present all our findings and, uh, new discoveries, what we find during the year, and, uh, novelties what criminals are using from perspective of law enforcement, private sector, academia.
3:23
So from everyone, uh, we collect data with whom we, uh, operate.

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Uh, in fact, actually, uh

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