Cyber-attacks: the apex of crime-as-a-service (IOCTA 2023)

The Spotlight Report ‘Cyber-attacks: the apex of crime-as-a-service’, examines the developments in cyber-attacks, discussing new methodologies and threats as observed by Europol’s operational analysts. It also outlines the types of criminal structures that are behind cyber-attacks, and how these increasingly professionalised groups are exploiting changes in geopolitics as part of their methodologies.

This report is the first in a series of Spotlight Reports released by Europol as part of the IOCTA 2023. Each takes a closer look at emerging trends in a specific area of cybercrime. Other modules within the IOCTA 2023 look at online fraud and child sexual exploitation.