EU anti-cybercrime centre to launch on Friday
The European Commission has confirmed that the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) is to open on Friday 11 January to help protect member states from cyber threats.
At a press conference, announcing EC3’s opening, Commissioner Cecilia Malmström said the centre will allow the EU to fight cybercrime on multiple fronts.
“Cyber criminals are quick in using new technologies to commit their crimes. They are infiltrating computers, bank accounts, financial transactions...they steal bank credentials and identities [and can] also hack smartphones and social network profiles,” she said. “Very few [cyber crimes] are reported and very few are solved...so that’s why we need to work together in the EU...and the EC3 will be a tool developed to show cyber criminals that we are there to stop them,” Malmström added.
