Transnational Organised Cybercrime
The 2023–2024 Transnational Organise Crime programme broadly explores the synergies between organised crime and cybercrime. This includes specific crime types, the means and methods of online and computer-based offending, the involvement of organised criminal groups, international frameworks and national laws, as well law enforcement methods, prosecution, and prevention of transnational organised cybercrime. Several research projects explore and explain basic terms and concepts concerning transnational organised cybercrime, their sources and variations in international and national laws, and the evolution of these concepts, of countermeasures, and the literature. Other projects look at the use of computer-based (or cyber-) crime as a means to facilitate offences commonly committed by or associated with organised criminal groups or look specifically at online fraud and scams. Relevant international frameworks and national offences relating to transnational organised cybercrime are explored in further projects. Various countermeasures to detect transnational organised cybercrime, prosecute offenders, and prevent offending and victimisation will also be examined.
Participants

Gamze Altindas (Vienna)
Undercover investigations and organized cybercrime
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Giorgia Bussolin (Ferrara)
Smuggling of migrants and social media
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Marie Coenen (Cologne)
International law enforcement and judicial cooperation against transnational organized cybercrime
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Jeannine Davalos Gavia (Zurich)
Organised criminal groups and cybercrime
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Abbey Grice (Queensland)
‘Romance scams’ organised crime
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Helena Hagan (Queensland)
Ransomware attacks
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Caroline Hauer (Vienna)
Online money laundering
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Lisa Hou (Vienna)
The FATF Recommendations and online money laundering
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Evgeniya Ispolatovskaya (Zurich)
The online market for counterfeit goods
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Caitlin Kearney (Queensland)
The role of social media and the internet in the context of trafficking in persons
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Harrison Mitic (Queensland)
Offences relating to transnational organised cybercrime in Australian federal criminal law
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Lucia Moser (Zurich)
Crime as a service and organised crime
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Jan Osten (Cologne)
Encrypted communication within organised crime: The admissibility of EncroChat evidence in criminal proceedings
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Tabea Hannah Rabitsch (Vienna)
The “Darknet” and illicit drugs
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Hannah Retief (Queensland)
The future role of artificial intelligence (AI) in criminal investigations of transnational organized cybercrime
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Niklaus Julian Sempach (Zurich)
Drug trafficking, online sales and distribution, and organised crime
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Emily Stohl (Vienna)
The ‘419 scams’ and organised crime
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Emma Turetta (Ferrara)
Online distribution of child pornography and organised crime
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Enrico Zannarini (Ferrara)
Efforts to conclude a new UN cybercrime convention
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