Cybercrime

Cybercrime
Make your password strong
  
"Make your password strong!"
New resolutions for 2024? Secure your digital life with strong passwords. With our prevention campaign "Make your password strong" we give you helpful tips.
My data stays with me
  

Data theft: users often make it far too easy for hackers

The publication of personal data exposes and discredits those affected. It is therefore important that everyone protects themselves from being spied on.

Data theft: How can I protect myself?

In addition to the security authorities, every individual can also help to protect their data. This starts with a secure password.

Secure online banking

What you can do to protect yourself when banking online using the PIN/TAN procedure

Job scamming

In job scamming, perpetrators copy or falsify websites of actually existing companies and create fake job advertisements on the Internet.
The right technical settings
  
Surf the net safely
Here you will find important technical tips.
Fraud on the net
  

Concept store with showroom

Blackmail, coercion, fraud. What to do against cyber criminals? What is probably the most modern high-tech advice center in Europe has opened in Cologne. Inspectors use live streams, virtual reality and online quizzes to provide information about unscrupulous con artists.

Caution: Fake stores

Deceptively genuine! How to protect yourself from online fake stores - not just on Black Friday.
Digital attacks and sexual assaults
  

Sextortion - sexual blackmail on the internet

Criminals threaten to publish compromising videos or photos of their victims during a chat or by email. The perpetrators thus reach the most personal area of the victim's life.

Cybergrooming

Prevention tips for parents, children and young people

Cyberbullying: digital attacks with the smartphone

Mean words, insults and slander in the virtual world are on the rise.
Hate speech on the net
  
Anyone who incites hatred is liable to prosecution. Even on the internet.
Hate posts on social media platforms are consistently prosecuted instead of just being deleted. The "Prosecute instead of just deleting" initiative takes perpetrators out of anonymity in order to counter racist propaganda. Together with the public prosecutor's office in Cologne (ZAC NRW), the NRW po...
Cyberattacks on companies
  

IT security: Increasing threat from ransomware attacks

Cyber attacks using ransomware pose a major threat to our society. Information technology systems are encrypted, sensitive data may be published and high ransoms demanded.

IT security for companies

Nine out of ten companies are already affected by attacks on their networks. This is the result of a recently published Bitkom study.

CEO fraud: high risk of fraud for companies

In this scam, perpetrators try to manipulate people in companies who are authorized to make decisions.

When professionals and kids work together

Cyberattacks on companies are on the rise. It's about money and power. Prevention and advice from the LKA.
Cybercrime Competence Center
in the LKA NRW
The Cybercrime Competence Center at the LKA NRW
The Cybercrime Competence Center was set up at the North Rhine-Westphalia State Office of Criminal Investigation in 2011 to adequately tackle the growing challenge of this form of crime.
Statistics
  
Cybercrime situation report
Short-time work, quarantine, the childcare situation, working from home and other pandemic-related adjustments meant that large parts of the population spent significantly more time using online services. Many businesses were only able to offer their goods and services online at times. This also had...
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