By John McCarthy

Europol on Monday announced a new hacker-tracking agency called the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT) to combat digital crime in the EU and beyond.

The J-CAT team will be piloted for a period of half a year where it will operate from Europol’s European CyberCrime Center.

The group, brought together by the EU Cybercrime Taskforce, the FBI and the NCA, is comprised of cyber liason officers from the EU and partnering law-enforcement agencies across the world including Canada, Germany, France, Spain, the UK and the US.

The team will be tasked with neutralising key cyber-crime threats and targets, such as underground forums and Read full story ›

Source: The Drum