Europol

And they have been pioneering efforts now for decades to employ civil legal process, to employ technical capabilities, to disrupt the cyber criminal actors, including the criminal ecosystems that feed ransomware attacks, that feed fraud scams.

They've undertaken a disruption action working with Europol, working with German authorities, working with the UK to disrupt and dismantle a cyber criminal ecosystem that was providing the computer infrastructure and stolen software to cyber criminals around the world.

So it's that working together using the intelligence that we have, the unique insights that Microsoft has access to when it comes to cyber threats, using that, sharing that, working with authorities around the world to take action under the rule of law to disrupt those criminal actors.

These are the types of collaborative efforts that we need to be doing more of.

And ultimately, the police are obviously taking it seriously, as they should, the PSNI.

But they're saying, look... we don't think it's credible having looked into it and based on our intelligence we think it's just a bluff and there have been similar threats made in the past it's just to try and scare people which obviously it succeeded in that it worked but uh yeah that it's not actually nobody's actually going to be hurt and that it's they're just bluffing um that being said Why do we have people in our country who would even think to threaten like that? Like, you know, the level of radicalism we know is going up thanks to Europol.

The radicalism isn't going up thanks to Europol, but we know about it thanks to Europol.

And, you know, we see jihadist offenses rising, and a lot of the time that's terror financing overseas.

But if you're living in Ireland and you're sending finance to terrorist organizations, then that means you're sympathetic to them.

So they produce those lists, for example, of known, as I say, the red list of looted objects from Egypt rather than Syria, rather than other countries that are affected by conflict and looting.

We have police initiatives that are international, so coordinated by Interpol and or Europol that actually try to dismantle organization that are criminal, but that might also have connection with terror organization and that have uncovered a huge amount of looting with the values of several million dollars.

So there have also been a large number of international operations that are essentially cooperative operations coordinated by Interpol and or Europol.

Those include operations known as Operation Pandora and Operation Athena.

Those operations are basically geared towards identifying criminal networks of smugglers and criminals.

So they produce those lists, for example, of known, as I say, the red list, the red list of looted objects from Egypt rather than Syria, rather than other countries that are affected by conflict and looting.

We have police initiatives that are international, so coordinated by Interpol and or Europol that actually try to dismantle organization that are criminal, but that might also have connection with terror organization and that have uncovered a huge amount of looting with the values of several million dollars.

So there have also been a large number of international operations that are essentially cooperative operations coordinated by Interpol and or Europol.

Those include operations known as Operation Pandora and Operation Athena.

Those operations are basically geared towards identifying networks of people criminal networks of smugglers and eventually distributors of antiquities.

So they produce those lists, for example, of known, as I say, the red list, the red list of looted objects from Egypt rather than Syria, rather than other countries that are affected by conflict and looting.

We have police initiatives that are international, so coordinated by Interpol and or Europol that actually try to dismantle organization that are criminal, but that might also have connection with terror organization and that have uncovered a huge amount of looting with the values of several million dollars.

So there have also been a large number of international operations that are essentially cooperative operations coordinated by Interpol and or Europol.

Those include operations known as Operation Pandora and Operation Athena.

Those operations are basically geared towards identifying networks of people criminal networks of smugglers and eventually distributors of antiquities.

The guy running Dig.ai could easily be logging every single exploit, every single zero-day vulnerability, every single backdoor script that other criminals are asking for, and just stealing their ideas for his own campaigns.

Or, even more likely, what if it's a honeypot run by the FBI or Europol to collect IP addresses of people asking for bomb instructions?

It is a classic intelligence gathering technique and highly possible.

The paranoia in those dark web forums must be intense when using a free tool like this.