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Dear [Recipient Name| Subscriber],
Welcome to the CC-DRIVER newsletter!
Cybercriminality is a ubiquitous and rapidly evolving crime scourging communities across the globe and causing unprecedented economic costs and social harm. Cybercrime has become increasingly transnational and is taking on new forms as hacking tools available on the dark web are making it possible for unsophisticated hackers to cause enormous damage. In our collective effort to tackle cybercriminality, we urgently need to better understand the technical and human drivers of cybercrime, especially as they relate to new trends and the rise of amateur hackers.
CC-DRIVER is an EU-funded H2020 project which will combine interdisciplinary research with innovation activities to illuminate the role of technical and human factors in current cybercrime trends and translate the findings into co-design tools and innovative methods to support the fight against cybercrime. By developing a shared view of the whole cybercrime eco-system with its various actors and dimensions of cybercriminality, we can deepen our understanding of what we can do, collectively and individually, to address and overcome it. An ethical, data protection and social impact assessment will build trust in the public for the use of technology in cybercrime-fighting efforts and ensure the respect of privacy and fundamental rights of citizens.
I am pleased to share with you the first edition of the bi-annual CC-DRIVER newsletter, in which you can find more information about the project, its objectives and goals. I also would like to encourage you to stay in touch and participate in our future dissemination activities, workshops and other events. We welcome your insights on our research and innovation activities by contacting us at ccdriver@trilateralresearch.com. You can follow project news and updates on our CC-DRIVER website and on our social media handles.
David Wright,
Project coordinator of CC-DRIVER
