{"id":18169,"date":"2025-03-18T17:37:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T16:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/russia-using-criminal-networks-to-drive-increase-in-sabotage-acts-says-europol\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T17:37:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T16:37:33","slug":"russia-using-criminal-networks-to-drive-increase-in-sabotage-acts-says-europol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/russia-using-criminal-networks-to-drive-increase-in-sabotage-acts-says-europol\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia using criminal networks to drive increase in sabotage acts, says Europol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proxies deploying tactics including migrant smuggling in destabilisation efforts across EU, enforcement agency finds<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/mar\/18\/trump-putin-call-ukraine-ceasefire-proposals-european-council-meeting-europe-live-news-latest\">Europe live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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\u2019s police enforcement agency has found.<\/p>\n<p>Europol\u2019s 80-page serious and organised crime threat assessment for 2025 also describes in detail how \u201chybrid threat\u201d actors have established a \u201cshadow alliance\u201d with organised criminal gangs in Europe to try to destabilise the functioning of the EU and its member states.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/mar\/18\/russia-criminal-networks-drive-increase-sabotage-europol\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/555948a0f3d1331c10e14adbabcf5d1cd74431a0\/0_605_6250_3750\/master\/6250.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=023612ae32baea76c176253d649a0a16\" title=\"Russia using criminal networks to drive increase in sabotage acts, says Europol\" \/>Proxies deploying tactics including migrant smuggling in destabilisation efforts across EU, enforcement agency finds<br \/>\nEurope live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nRussia 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\u2019s police enforcement agency has found.<br \/>\nEuropol\u2019s 80-page serious and organised crime threat assessment for 2025 also describes in detail how \u201chybrid threat\u201d actors have established a \u201cshadow alliance\u201d with organised criminal gangs in Europe to try to destabilise the functioning of the EU and its member states. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proxies deploying tactics including migrant smuggling in destabilisation efforts across EU, enforcement agency finds Europe live \u2013 latest updates 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\u2019s police enforcement agency has found. Europol\u2019s 80-page serious and organised crime &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/russia-using-criminal-networks-to-drive-increase-in-sabotage-acts-says-europol\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russia using criminal networks to drive increase in sabotage acts, says Europol<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}