At a time when strengthening capacities on cybercrime and cybersecurity is more important than ever, the Council of Europe Cybercrime Programme Office (C-PROC) and the European Commission will organise, from 7 to 11 March in Athens (Greece), a regional cyber exercise involving co-operation between the cybersecurity community (mainly computer security incident response teams – CIRTs) and law enforcement agencies on handling and investigating a malware attack orchestrated by a criminal group.
The training is organised in the framework of the “CyberEast: Action on Cybercrime for Cyber Resilience in the Eastern Partnership Region” project and the “iPROCEEDS-2: Targeting Crime Proceeds on the Internet and Securing Electronic Evidence in South-East Europe and Turkey” project, in partnership with the Cybersecurity East project, funded by the European Union.
The Regional Cybercrime Exercise will bring together 50 participants, mostly from four of the six countries of the Eastern Partnership region (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and the Republic of Moldova) and from South-East Europe: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey. The trainers include experts on cybercrime and cybersecurity from the UK, Australia, the Netherlands and Romania.