2017 Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA)

Citation
Europol, 2017 Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) (Oct. 2017) (full-text).

Overview
This year's report highlights how cybercrime continues to grow and evolve, taking new forms and directions, as demonstrated in some of the attacks of unprecedented scale of late 2016 and mid-2017. It further highlights the progressive convergence of cyber and serious and organised crime, supported by a professional underground service economy. The report goes on to list a number of key recommendations to address the phenomenon of cybercrime and identifies several priority topics to inform the definition of operational actions for EU law enforcement in the framework of the EU Policy Cycle. These include concrete actions under EC3's (European Cybercrime Centre) three main mandated areas &mdash; child sexual exploitation online, cyber-dependent crime, and payment fraud, as well as cross-cutting crime enablers.