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Latest episodes

  • Q&A on how CSAM offenders are adapting to new technology

    August 18, 2026 · 38 min

    This bonus episode of the Europol Podcast answers questions raised by our audience during the live expert session examining how CSAM offenders are using and adapting to emerging technologies. Danny van Althuis, Head of Team at the European…

  • How online fraud schemes are becoming a growing threat

    July 31, 2026 · 46 min

    Fraud schemes represent the fastest-growing area of organised crime. Online fraud schemes (OFS) networks target both individuals and organisations, operating as highly efficient and transnational industries. These networks employ a range…

  • How ransomware is evolving

    July 31, 2026 · 45 min

    Ransomware continues to pose a dominant threat across the EU. Criminal actors persist in exploiting vulnerabilities in the digital supply chain and are increasingly employing social engineering techniques. Moreover, they are evolving…

  • How CSAM offenders are adapting to new technology

    July 31, 2026 · 43 min

    Offenders involved in child sexual exploitation are swiftly adapting to new technologies, broadening their criminal activities, increasing opportunities for abuse, and making the exchange of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) more…

  • How cybercrime enablers are facilitating crime

    July 31, 2026 · 54 min

    In the rapidly evolving cybercrime landscape, a wide variety of enablers facilitate illicit activities. These range from resilient dark web marketplaces, the use of cryptocurrencies as payment methods, to multi-layered infrastructures…

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  • The future of Europol

    December 18, 2025 · 31 min

    The DNA of organised crime is evolving, and so is Europol. In this episode, you'll find out which direction Europol is heading in and how the EU’s agency for law enforcement cooperation is staying one step ahead of criminal networks…

  • How crime is accelerated by AI

    June 24, 2025 · 34 min

    Artificial Intelligence is turbocharging organised crime, but how exactly? In this episode of The Europol Podcast, we reveal how organised crime is accelerating as it becomes increasingly efficient, as harnessing AI allows criminal…

  • How crime is nurtured online

    June 10, 2025 · 31 min

    Online fraud is increasing in scale, diversity and sophistication, at a pace we have never seen before. From investment fraud to cyberattacks, to get people’s money and data, to the laundering of this criminal money via cryptocurrencies…

  • How criminal networks destabilise the EU

    May 20, 2025 · 28 min

    Serious and organised crime is not just a threat to public safety; it impacts the very foundations of the EU and its society. It has a double destabilising effect on the EU. It undermines the EU’s economy, rule of law and society by…

  • The changing DNA of crime

    May 6, 2025 · 19 min

    The battle against serious and organised crime is no longer fought in the streets, but in cyberspace, in artificial intelligence labs, dark-web markets, and the shadows of geopolitics. The very DNA of organised crime is changing. It is…

  • The Europol Podcast - Season 3

    April 25, 2025 · 1 min

    This season, we shine a light on the changing DNA of serious and organised crime. We will explore the biggest threats facing our internal security, revealing Europol’s analysis, the biggest operations we have supported, and how we continue…

  • Bonus episode: 25 years of putting people at the centre

    December 12, 2024 · 20 min

    This bonus episode of The Europol Podcast marks the Agency’s 25th anniversary and was recorded during a panel discussion held at Europol HQ. What has changed in the law enforcement landscape since Europol started out as the European Union…

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About the show

The Europol Podcast is the official podcast of the EU’s agency for law enforcement cooperation. In this series, we shine a light on some of the biggest operations Europol has supported, and how we continue to fight crime.