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Incident 994: AI-Enabled Organized Crime Expands Across Europe

Description: Europol’s EU Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment (EU-SOCTA) 2025 warns that AI is accelerating the growth of organized crime throughout Europe. Criminal networks are leveraging AI for cyber fraud, ransomware, money laundering, and child exploitation, while AI-powered social engineering and automation are making criminal operations more scalable and harder to detect.
Editor Notes: This incident ID centers on a broad, collective series of incidents that are specifically explored in Europol's EU-SOCTA (European Union Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment) for 2025, which can be accessed here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/cms/sites/default/files/documents/EU-SOCTA-2025.pdf.

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Alleged: Various generative AI developers developed an AI system deployed by Organized crime groups, which harmed General public of the European Union.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Voice cloning technology , Large language models and Deepfake technology apps

Incident Stats

Incident ID
994
Report Count
7
Incident Date
2025-03-18
Editors
Daniel Atherton

Incident Reports

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The DNA of organised crime is changing – and so is the threat to Europe | Europol
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How transnational mafiosi became the new generals of hybrid warfare
The DNA of organised crime is changing – and so is the threat to Europe | Europol

The DNA of organised crime is changing – and so is the threat to Europe | Europol

europol.europa.eu

Europol warns of AI-driven crime threats

Europol warns of AI-driven crime threats

reuters.com

Europol warns of AI-powered organized crime

Europol warns of AI-powered organized crime

gzeromedia.com

Europol Warns of AI-Driven Crime Threats

Europol Warns of AI-Driven Crime Threats

usnews.com

AI is turbocharging organized crime, EU police agency warns

AI is turbocharging organized crime, EU police agency warns

apnews.com

How transnational mafiosi became the new generals of hybrid warfare

How transnational mafiosi became the new generals of hybrid warfare

euronews.com

AI-Powered Crime: Europol Warns Of A New Era In Organised Crime

AI-Powered Crime: Europol Warns Of A New Era In Organised Crime

thefuturemedia.eu

The DNA of organised crime is changing – and so is the threat to Europe | Europol
europol.europa.eu · 2025

Europol's EU Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment (EU-SOCTA) 2025, published today, reveals how the very DNA of crime is shifting -- reshaping the tactics, tools and structures employed by criminal networks.

The EU-SOCTA offers one…

Europol warns of AI-driven crime threats
reuters.com · 2025

March 18 (Reuters) - Organised crime gangs are turning to AI-powered scams and payment systems to target victims, allowing them to rapidly and more cheaply scale up operations globally and making them harder to detect, Europol warned on Tue…

Europol warns of AI-powered organized crime
gzeromedia.com · 2025

Europol issued a warning Tuesday about organized crime groups increasingly using artificial intelligence to power their criminal operations.

According to anew report, criminals are using AI to create scams in multiple languages, produce rea…

Europol Warns of AI-Driven Crime Threats
usnews.com · 2025

(Reuters) - Organised crime gangs are turning to AI-powered scams and payment systems to target victims, allowing them to rapidly and more cheaply scale up operations globally and making them harder to detect, Europol warned on Tuesday.

The…

AI is turbocharging organized crime, EU police agency warns
apnews.com · 2025

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The European Union’s law enforcement agency cautioned Tuesday that artificial intelligence is turbocharging organized crime that is eroding the foundations of societies across the 27-nation bloc as it becomes i…

How transnational mafiosi became the new generals of hybrid warfare
euronews.com · 2025

Europol’s report “EU Serious and Organized Crime Threat Assessment 2025” spotlights “DNA mutation” of organised crime, an alarming destabilizing factor for democratic political systems through war and new technologies

International mafias h…

AI-Powered Crime: Europol Warns Of A New Era In Organised Crime
thefuturemedia.eu · 2025

Organized crime is entering a new phase, fueled by artificial intelligence. Criminal networks are leveraging AI-driven scams, sophisticated payment systems, and generative AI tools to scale their operations globally, making them cheaper, mo…

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