Not really sure that this article isnt smoke and mirrors about smoke and mirrors. Essentially, it is saying that there are companies at the heart of the scandal that hide their true owners.

The Ransomware virus. You get a message from Europol or a national police force claiming to be fining you 100 euros for looking at child porn, file sharing or terrorist sites. Clever stuff. Not too much and all recently created offences with high media exposure. Better to pay and keep quiet!

Frustrating article that appears to tell us loads about a specific Chinese group, but in the end doesn’t quite. Its really about making employees more phishing aware.

National Audit Office assesses UK state of cybercrime threat and response. Some useful figures in the report.

What’s going on in Sochi? Comments on the state of Russian organised crime after the death of a “thief in law”.

I think this is my first post in Norwegian! handy little graphic. fairly easy to work out what most of it means too.

Press release on yesterday’s report on the EU drugs market. Lots of useful links at the bottom including one to the full text. Interesting comments on the changing nature of organised crime too.

Someone is stealing Italy’s old books, and probably paintings too…on behalf of the wealthy. There’s a surprise.

Oh No it doesnt. Actually, experts have lots of explanations, starting with just how suspect the statistics have become, because they dont record fraud, retail crime or internet crime adequately. Criminology isn’t dead…it just smells that way!

Something else for your bloggers to lose sleep over. Is this state cyber-terrorism?