Europol warns AI is expanding criminal operations

Organised crime gangs are increasingly using AI to scale operations globally, making scams more efficient and harder to detect, according to Europol’s latest crime threat assessment.
AI-powered scams are enabling criminals to craft realistic, multilingual messages, impersonate individuals, and expand cyberfraud globally, making these operations more difficult to trace and disrupt.

Europol has warned that organised crime gangs are increasingly using AI to scale up cyberfraud operations globally, making them harder to detect and allowing them to target victims more efficiently.

Criminals are leveraging AI to craft multilingual scams, impersonate individuals, and blackmail targets. Europol’s report highlights how AI is revolutionising the way organised crime operates.

The rise of AI is also leading to the creation of child sexual abuse material, with Europol noting the dangers of this technology in automating and expanding criminal activities, making them more challenging to uncover.

Europol warns that the development of fully autonomous AI systems could lead to AI-controlled criminal networks, marking a dangerous new phase in organised crime, with serious implications for global security.

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