Resources
The Council of Europe, through the Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY) or whithin its capacity building projects, publishes guidance notes, studies, assessments on cybercrime related topics.
These technical reports do not necessarily reflect official positions of the Council of Europe, of project donors or of the Parties of the treaties referred to.
Cybercrime is transnational: attacks launched by a person in one country or jurisdiction can affect persons in multiple other countries.
The Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY) agreed on tools to facilitate international cooperation:
- Template: Mutual Legal Assistance Request for subscriber information (Art. 31).
Also in: Albanian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Turkish - Template: Data Preservation Request (Art. 29 and 30).
Also in: Albanian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Turkish
State Parties to the Convention on Cybercrime need to indicate central authorities for extradition (article 24) and for mutual assistance requests (article 27), as well as 24/7 points of contact (article 35).
Contact details can be made available upon request.
The country cybercrime wikis and legal profiles have been prepared to share information and assess the current state of implementation of the Convention on Cybercrime under domestic legislation.
The profiles are available on the Octopus Platform and they do not necessarily reflect official positions of the country covered or of the Council of Europe.
Cyberviolence being a relatively new phenomenon that encompasses a wide variety of crimes, the term is still difficult to define precisely. The T-CY Working Group on cyberbullying and other forms of violence, in its Mapping Study on Cyberviolence, settled on defining cyberviolence as:
"the use of computer systems to cause, facilitate, or threaten violence against individuals, that results in (or is likely to result in) physical, sexual, psychological or economic harm or suffering and may include the exploitation of the individual's circumstance, characteristics or vulnerabilities."
With the rise of cybercrime and the increasing reliance on electronic evidence, it is essential for professionals in the criminal justice sector to stay ahead of the criminals. CYBOX – our online platform for exchange, training, and resource sharing on cybercrime and electronic evidence – is designed to meet the evolving training needs of judges, prosecutors, law enforcement agencies, and other key stakeholders in the criminal justice system worldwide.
CYBOX creates an environment in which countries cooperating with the Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe (C-PROC) can increase their capacity to investigate and prosecute cybercrime.
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The Council of Europe is supporting action against ransomware through the tools of the Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention) and its Protocols, and capacity building projects of the Cybercrime Programme Office (C-PROC), such as:
- Strengthening domestic criminal law
- Simulation exercises and workshops for practitioners (for example, workshops on ransomware and financial investigations)
- The development of materials and tools (such as the Guide for investigation of ransomware attacks)
The Ransomware resource has information on:
- Forms, modi operandi, risks and challenges of ransomware offences
- Capacity building
- International legal standards and instruments
- Examples of responses, actions and initiatives
- Other resources and relevant developments
The Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe (C-PROC), together with partners, supports criminal justice authorities worldwide in their cooperation against cybercrime also through a series of webinars. Consult our past and upcoming webinars, with respective resources shared on the dedicated webpages.
Learn more about our projects and our activity worldwide through a collection of videos and, more recently, podcasts produced over the years.
The Cybercrime Digest is a bi-weekly update and global outlook issued by the Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe (C-PROC). The content shared on this page does not represent official positions of the Council of Europe.
