Resources
The Council of Europe, through the Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY) or whithin its capacity building projects, publishes guidance notes, studies, assessments on cybercrime related topics.
These technical reports do not necessarily reflect official positions of the Council of Europe, of project donors or of the Parties of the treaties referred to.
Consult all the training and other materials on cybercrime and electronic evidence developed by the Council of Europe within its capacity building programmes. Training materials are provided for educational non-commercial purposes. You can expect new / updated courses to be available soon. The HELP course on cybercrime has been launched (available in multiple languages) and you can find more information here.
The country cybercrime wikis and legal profiles have been prepared to share information and assess the current state of implementation of the Convention on Cybercrime under domestic legislation.
The profiles are available on the Octopus Platform and they do not necessarily reflect official positions of the country covered or of the Council of Europe.
Cyberviolence being a relatively new phenomenon that encompasses a wide variety of crimes, the term is still difficult to define precisely. The T-CY Working Group on cyberbullying and other forms of violence, in its Mapping Study on Cyberviolence, settled on defining cyberviolence as:
"the use of computer systems to cause, facilitate, or threaten violence against individuals, that results in (or is likely to result in) physical, sexual, psychological or economic harm or suffering and may include the exploitation of the individual's circumstance, characteristics or vulnerabilities."
The Council of Europe is supporting action against ransomware through the tools of the Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention) and its Protocols, and capacity building projects of the Cybercrime Programme Office (C-PROC), such as:
- Strengthening domestic criminal law
- Simulation exercises and workshops for practitioners (for example, workshops on ransomware and financial investigations)
- The development of materials and tools (such as the Guide for investigation of ransomware attacks)
The Ransomware resource has information on:
- Forms, modi operandi, risks and challenges of ransomware offences
- Capacity building
- International legal standards and instruments
- Examples of responses, actions and initiatives
- Other resources and relevant developments
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