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ENhanced AI-baSEd cybercriMe-oriented collaBorative investigation technologies and capabiLitiEs

Project description

AI-based technology to detect and prevent cybercrime

Technological advancements create opportunities for sophisticated cybercrimes that, through innovative tactics and techniques, pose serious security and financial risks to the EU and beyond. The EU-funded ENSEMBLE project aims to combat cross-border cybercrime using advanced AI-based technology, multi-stakeholder investigation processes, training, and awareness. The project focuses on detecting and preventing ransomware, cyber fraud, data theft, extortion, unauthorised access, and crypto-jacking. It will develop an AI-based investigation toolbox to assist police authorities in detecting, extracting, processing, and analysing online information relevant to cybercrime activities. Additionally, it emphasises joint multi-stakeholder operations at both national and cross-border levels and will provide innovative training curricula and methods for police authorities, prosecutors, and judicial actors involved in these investigations.

Objective

Technology advancements enhance everyday life, but they also provide numerous opportunities for the proliferation of advanced cybercrimes, which, via innovative tactics and techniques, pose serious security and financial risks to EU and beyond. ENSEMBLE aims to provide a well-rounded response to the fight against (cross-border) cybercriminal activities, at the nexus of advanced AI-based technological solutions, (multi-stakeholder) investigations processes, training, and awareness in order to detect and prevent cybercrime-related activities, with particular focus on ransomware, cyber fraud, data theft and extortion as well as unauthorised access and crypto-jackings. This will be achieved via a three-pillar approach. ENSEMBLE will develop a modular AI-based, forensically sound investigation toolbox based on user centric criteria, to assist Police Authorities in detecting, extracting, processing, and analysing online information relevant to cybercrime activities, thus fighting sophisticated cyber-threats, capitalising also in joint multi-stakeholder operations both at national and cross border level and in secure data and information sharing mechanisms. Police Authorities, prosecutors, and judicial actors involved in such investigations will be offered innovative training curricula and methods as well as synchronous and/or asynchronous learning methodologies that will be aligned to their needs and improve their current capacity, taking into consideration the technological, procedural, operational, legal/multi-jurisdictional dimensions. Finally, public awareness and engagement with relevant actors for early identification and prevention of cybercrimes will be cultivated through targeted awareness raising campaigns and specific policy recommendations. Having brough together a multidisciplinary team of five LEAs, seven research/academic institutions and six industry partners (including five SMEs) with a wide range of expertise in the field, ENSEMBLE provides a compelling

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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL3-2023-FCT-01

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Coordinator

ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS
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€ 555 000,00
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Βόρεια Ελλάδα Κεντρική Μακεδονία Θεσσαλονίκη
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€ 555 000,00

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