Summary
Europol reports that Russia and other state actors are using criminal networks to conduct sabotage, cyber-attacks, and migrant smuggling to destabilize the EU.
The agency’s 2025 threat assessment describes a “shadow alliance” where criminals act as proxies for state-backed hybrid threats. Recent attacks, including arson in Lithuania and Poland, have been linked to Russian intelligence.
Officials warn of ongoing security risks, including AI-driven cybercrime.
Europol says these tactics aim to weaken institutions through persistent disruptions rather than large-scale attacks.
6 Comments
lka1988@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 1y
Can someone just fucking kill Putin already? I've had enough of this asshole's pot-stirring bullshit.
NotLemming@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 1y
Paragone@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
Last century I read part of a CIA manual on operating in foreign-countries..
it insisted that doing things through local-organized-crime was ideal, as
So, Russia & the US both use the same manual then?
Who's the Good Guys, if everybody is doing this, this way??
Machiavellianism wins, doesn't it?
Unfortunately, yes, it does.
I happen to want NONmachiavellianism winning, permanently, from now on.
got no traction, for that, though..
not yet, anyways..
maybe if we dig-in, & work, & work, & work, for years, maybe future-generations can have the world we could have made..
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Paragone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
PS: Russia's been acting to increase the refugee-loading on Europe as a destabilizing-method, for .. decades now??
This isn't new.
The intensity may be new, but now he's closer to winning the butchering of Europe, so this is to be expected..
jmd_akbar@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 1y
They don't need any other criminal network - they have the best network in the White House now...
kingofras@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
If he goes asymmetric, we go asymmetric. Let see how well his corrupt apparatus will identify a single Western operative. Not that hard to get a sniper rifle in Russia on the black market. Heck, the Russian black market is so ubiquitous I’m sure you could easily find a replacement president too.
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 4 pts · 1y
How come countries never seem to do shit when this stuff happens?