45th EAST Meeting hosted by EC3 at Europol

The 45th Meeting of EAST National Members was hosted by the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol on 6th June 2018. National country crime updates were provided by 21 countries, and a global update by HSBC.  Topics covered included payment fraud and the evolution of payment technology, ATM malware and logical attacks, terminal related fraud attacks and ATM related physical attacks.

EC3 presented on the latest initiatives and events relating to e-commerce fraud prevention, global airport actions (GAAD) to combat online fraud involving stolen or fake credit card data to purchase plane tickets, actions relating to virtual currencies, the Europol-ASEAN Strategic Payment Card Fraud Meeting, and provided updates on Advisory Group activities relating to Internet Security, Communication Providers and Financial Services.

Presentations were also given by the EAST Payments Task Force (EPTF) and the EAST Expert Group on ATM and ATS Physical Attacks (EGAP).  An update was given by the EAST Expert Group on All Terminal Fraud (EGAF).

EAST Fraud Update 2-2018 will be produced later this month, based on the national country crime updates provided at the meeting.  EAST Fraud Updates are available on the EAST Website to EAST Members.

The 46th EAST Meeting will be held in London on 9th October 2018 and will be followed by EAST FCS Seminars on 10th October 2018 at the same venue.