Only 100 cybercrime brains worldwide says Europol boss

  • 13 October 2014
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Well if they have a good idea they should get them brought in to be questioned.
 
10 October 2014
 


 
There are only "around 100" cybercriminal kingpins behind global cybercrime, according to the head of Europol's Cybercrime Centre.
Speaking to the BBC's Tech Tent radio show, Troels Oerting said that law enforcers needed to target the "rather limited group of good programmers".
"We roughly know who they are. If we can take them out of the equation then the rest will fall down," he said.
Although, he added, fighting cybercrime remained an uphill battle.
"This is not a static number, it will increase unfortunately," he said.
"We can still cope but the criminals have more resources and they do not have obstacles. They are driven by greed and profit and they produce malware at a speed that we have difficulties catching up with."
The biggest issue facing cybercrime fighters at the moment was the fact that it was borderless, he told the BBC.
 
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