No more lockdowns, plus the war in Ukraine, fueling new and old crimes. That’s the security situation.
For two years, traveling offenders were practically at home. “There was even a day when there were no burglaries anywhere in Austria,” recalls Andreas Holzer, director of the federal investigation. But since the end of the strict pandemic restrictions, Austria is no longer an island of the blessed. The ads have been on the rise since this year. There is an increase in the number of housing compartments and car thefts compared to 2021 – by 25 to 43 percent.
67 different individual phenomena
Security issue 2 is Internet fraud. The researchers now record 67 different individual phenomena. So-called ransom attacks or blackmail with stolen data are shifting to small and medium-sized businesses. Because the big companies have upgraded.
General Holzer sees his authority as the firewall of the republic. Therefore, the cyber competence center will be doubled from the current 60 to 128 IT specialists. In addition, it is important to stay fit for the future with the upcoming reform of the criminal service in order to keep up with the criminals. The arms trade, fueled by the war in Ukraine, is also being targeted. Added to this is an incredible amount of chats seized by a major FBI operation that set up a camouflaged network of supposedly tap-proof cell phones as a trap the drug mafia fell into.
As a result of this action, a billion (!) messages containing sometimes horrific images of torture and contract killings that give even experienced researchers goosebumps have to be evaluated. Andreas Holzer: “We’ve been working on that for ten years.”
Source: Krone
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