The answer is we can’t. But we can prevent it. A survey of 8,000 young people in eight countries, followed by interviews with cybercriminals (reformed into "ethical hackers") revealed that young criminals are not even aware that their work is illegal.
In an interview for the blog of the DEMETER EU project, our colleague Mircea Predut from Software Imagination & Vision (SIMAVI) and Cristina Cionga from APPR hint about the pilot project they are working on in Cluster 1 which focuses on IoT Corn Management & Decision Support Platform.
What is the Romanian Maize Growers Association and can you explain more about your involvement in DEMETER?
In their ongoing fight against organized crime and terrorist organizations, investigators across Europe often face a variety of complex cases in which huge amounts of data need to be analyzed. It is necessary to analyze the pre-incident information, the processing of incidents in real time and post-incident, the prediction of the evolution related to other threats or subsequent attacks must be made. The analysis of these volumes of data often exceeds the capacity of police teams (LEAs).
Thirteen partners from across the EU have joined forces and launched a €5 million, three-year Horizon2020 project examining the drivers behind cybercriminality in the EU with a special focus on the factors that lead young people to cybercrime.