How cybercrime enablers are facilitating crime

The floor is yours, Edvardas.

Thank you very much, uh, Sh- so Charlotta.

So let's go back to Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment, as we call the IOCTA.

So it's, uh, version 2026, and, uh, we started in 2014.

It was first one.

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.

So from everyone, uh, we collect data with whom we, uh, operate.

Uh, maybe before jumping, uh, directly to, uh, report, I would like to bit, uh, briefly explain what we are and what we are doing.

Uh, so we are European Cybercrime Center at...

We are part of Europol, uh, EU Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation.

Uh, we don't investigate crimes by ourselves only, so we support, uh, our member states and operational partners.

And, uh, generally, mandate of Europol is two and more countries of EU involved.

Uh, so we should have, uh, international aspect, and then we can provide all our tools and services for disposal of countries.

Uh, so in this case, actually, we have Marijn, who is head of operations, and, uh, he, uh, coordinates, uh, our investigations and, uh, tries to do his best, uh, to be as, as efficient as possible.

Uh, what is interesting also to say is that, uh, during, uh, years, cybercrime evolve, but core pillars are... remain same.

So it's a bit interesting.

If you go back in 2013, '14, you will see that still ransomware is the main threat as, uh, from, uh, cyber.

You will see child sexual abuse.

You will see online fraud.

But everything year by year is more and more sophisticated, more and more automated.

Uh, we have, uh, uh, ChatGPT, when it's was as, uh... came almost from nowhere, and right now everyone is using large language models, become not reality, but actually it's part of.

Uh, so I'm not, uh, saying about these frontier models, but actually criminals learn from it as well.

They start to abuse, uh, legal ones, uh, legitimate ones, and also open source.

They try to tune based on their needs.

Uh, so, uh, key, uh, themes of 2025, so why we are busy and, uh, what, uh, uh, makes me not, uh, sleep very well during the night, if I can make in this way, actually, that obfuscation methods are becoming more and more sophisticated.