Security News > 2022 > April > Interpol: We can't arrest our way out of cybercrime

Witschi, the assistant director for cybercrime threat response and operations at Interpol, told The Register about recent successes that the agency's Gateway cyber-threat intel sharing project has had, and the increasingly well-funded, targeted attacks that law enforcement agencies are trying to prevent.

Through the project private-sector security shops including Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Trend Micro, Kaspersky Lab and others share intelligence with Interpol member countries' law enforcement agencies to help them investigate cybercrime and attribute attacks to the various crime rings.

Plus, law enforcement agencies typically don't have the budgets to hire cybersecurity and other technical specialists to help combat cybercrime.

How do you operationalize that? That's critical, and that's where we pass the ball" back to Interpol and law enforcement, he said.

These coordinated efforts, which also involve the Gateway threat-sharing security partners, focus on pumping resources into both identifying threats and then helping local law enforcement disrupt cybercrime rings.

Fortinet participated in this surge, and Manky said these efforts illustrate another point about why Gateway works: because it makes it more expensive for cybercrime rings to operate.

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