Digital crime knows no borders.

Cybercrime is now one of the fastest-growing threats – we counter it with knowledge, technology, and international networking.

What Is Cybercrime Today? – Threat Landscape

Cybercrime no longer affects only computer geeks and lone hackers. Digital crime ranges from ransomware and identity theft to complex attacks on governmental and private infrastructures.

Financial fraud
  • Phishing
  • Credit card theft
  • Fake investments
Social engineering
  • Love Scams
  • „Pig Butchering“
  • Deepfakes
Ransomware
  • Ransomware
  • Targeted attacks on administrations and hospitals
Darknet trade
  • Weapons
  • Drugs
  • Human
  • Anonymous and decentralized

UNODC & IPO: Global Responses to Digital Threats

Awareness & Prevention

e.g., workshops, information formats, awareness campaigns

Training & Capacity Building

Training for police, customs, IT specialists, judiciary

International Cooperation

Networking with UNODC, Europol, Interpol, and national agencies

Recognizing & Understanding Modern Threats

Crypto fraud & scam factories

In Southeast Asia, full-scale “scam industries” are emerging, where thousands of people are forced into compound-like facilities to conduct crypto fraud via fake platforms – often under the guise of romantic relationships (“pig butchering”).
Victims sometimes lose six-figure sums, and investigations are extremely difficult due to concealed networks and money laundering.

Telegram & darknet markets

Digital marketplaces are increasingly shifting to encrypted platforms like Telegram. Here, access credentials, data, malware, deepfake services, and even people are openly traded – almost in real time, globally accessible.
The UN warns of an exponential rise in this “instant crime.”

AI-powered disinformation & deepfakes

With freely available AI tools, it is now possible to create deceptively realistic videos, voices, and identities. These are used to deceive authorities, media, or companies – for example, in job interviews, CEO fraud, or political influence operations.
Investigators must learn to distinguish fake from reality.

Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure

Cities, hospitals, energy providers – all are increasingly targeted by digital attacks. Ransomware paralyzes entire systems, encrypts data, and extorts ransom payments.
Particularly dangerous: such attacks usually strike where human lives or public order are directly affected.

Technological support: BigData Platform in action

As part of our collaboration with Strauss ICG, we use RAKIA’s BigData Platform – a powerful tool for the detection of digital threats in real time.

The platform enables:

  • Collection and correlation of large datasets

  • Visualization of risk patterns & network structures

  • Support for investigations through AI-powered analysis

  • Real-time monitoring of digital vulnerabilities

The BigData Platform is integrated by the IPO Section Germany into training, simulation exercises, and pilot projects – without any commercial background.

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