Russia using criminal networks to drive increase in sabotage acts, says Europol
by Lisa O'Carroll from on (#6W0PZ)
Proxies deploying tactics including migrant smuggling in destabilisation efforts across EU, enforcement agency finds
Russia and other state actors are driving an increase in politically motivated cyber-attacks and sabotage of infrastructure and public institutions in the EU, the bloc's police enforcement agency has found.
Europol's 80-page serious and organised crime threat assessment for 2025 also describes in detail how hybrid threat" actors have established a shadow alliance" with organised criminal gangs in Europe to try to destabilise the functioning of the EU and its member states.
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