https://www.cepol.europa.eu/taxonomy-osint en Sun, 23 Nov 2025 23:00:01 GMT https://www.cepol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/building-lasting-impact-through-train-trainers-model-topcop Sun, 23 Nov 2025 23:00:01 GMT Creating sustainable law enforcement capacity requires more than one-off courses. It demands knowledge that multiplies long after CEPOL activities take place. Within the Training and Operational Partnership against Organised Crime (TOPCOP) project, CEPOL’s Train-the-Trainers (TtT) model stands ... 9071 at https://www.cepol.europa.eu https://www.cepol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/racing-against-clock-using-capture-flag-challenges-advance-police-training Mon, 29 Sep 2025 22:00:01 GMT When the first alert sounded in the training room, one of the officers glanced at their teammates. Their mission: trace the source of a simulated ransomware attack before it spreads. This was not a typical lecture, it was CEPOL’s first Capture the Flag (CTF) challenge, an exercise designed to test a... 9007 at https://www.cepol.europa.eu https://www.cepol.europa.eu/training-education/33-2025-ons-open-source-intelligence-osint-and-it-solutions-train-trainer Thu, 15 May 2025 22:00:01 GMT The aim of this onsite activity is to provide training for OSINT experts to facilitate national training programs aimed at equipping law enforcement officials with the necessary knowledge and skills to enhance their collection, analysis, processing, and dissemination of online information. This cour... 8761 at https://www.cepol.europa.eu https://www.cepol.europa.eu/newsroom/partners-news/osint-advanced-practitioners-trained-trainers-cepol-activity-athens Mon, 29 Apr 2024 22:00:00 GMT Law enforcement officials from across Europe recently gathered in Athens for a cutting-edge training course on developing open-source intelligence future trainers. This CEPOL onsite training activity 32/2024/ONS titled “OSINT and IT solutions: Train-the-Trainer” was organised by the Center for Secur... 8404 at https://www.cepol.europa.eu https://www.cepol.europa.eu/training-education/32-2024-ons-open-source-intelligence-osint-and-it-solutions-train-trainer Sun, 14 Apr 2024 22:00:00 GMT The aim of this onsite activity is to train trainers to carry out national training and to convey knowledge and develop skills of law enforcement officials to enhance the collection, processing, analysis, and distribution of online information to tackle cyber-dependent and cyber-enabled crimes and i... 8345 at https://www.cepol.europa.eu https://www.cepol.europa.eu/training-education/online-course-2003-2023-onl-fake-news-and-disinformation-leading-extremism Sun, 19 Nov 2023 23:00:00 GMT The aim of the activity is to enhance law enforcement cooperation and information exchange related to serious international and organised crime and terrorism.After completing this training activity, the participant will be able to:Discuss and distinguish OSINT and fake news that may lead to ext... 8171 at https://www.cepol.europa.eu https://www.cepol.europa.eu/training-education/43-2023-ons-open-source-intelligence-counter-terrorism Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:00:00 GMT The aim of this onsite activity is to enhance the effectiveness of counter-terrorism investigations by improving practitioners’ performance while using OSINT.This course is implemented by the CEPOL Knowledge Centre on Counter-Terrorism. 8120 at https://www.cepol.europa.eu https://www.cepol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/ukrainian-investigators-and-prosecutors-strengthen-their-skills-open-source Thu, 24 Aug 2023 22:00:00 GMT Investigating crimes in a modern information era requires application of a wide range of tools including open-source intelligence (OSINT). A use of data from open sources as evidence in criminal proceedings is one of the skills on top demand for Ukrainian prosecutors and investigators dealing with w... 8117 at https://www.cepol.europa.eu https://www.cepol.europa.eu/training-education/30-2023-ons-open-source-intelligence-osint-and-it-solutions-train-trainer Sun, 02 Jul 2023 22:00:00 GMT The aim of this onsite activity is to train trainers to carry out national training and to convey knowledge and develop skills of law enforcement officials to enhance the collection, processing, analysis, and distribution of online information to tackle cyber-dependent and cyber-enabled crimes and i... 7998 at https://www.cepol.europa.eu https://www.cepol.europa.eu/training-education/online-course-2001-2023-onl-open-source-intelligence-osint Sun, 30 Apr 2023 22:00:00 GMT The aim of the activity is to enhance the collection, processing, analysis, and distribution of online information to tackle cyber-dependent and cyber-enabled crimes, particularly terrorism and organised crime, and to improve online intelligence collection in qualitative and quantitative terms.The m... 7902 at https://www.cepol.europa.eu https://www.cepol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/council-europe-and-cepol-trains-ukrainian-sbi-investigators-and-operatives-open Sun, 27 Nov 2022 23:00:00 GMT Open-source intelligence (OSINT) enables law enforcement to collect information from a wide range of sources, building a detailed picture of criminals and improving the response to security threats. It can have particular importance during warfare, as it can contribute to war crime investigations, t... 7817 at https://www.cepol.europa.eu https://www.cepol.europa.eu/training-education/online-course-2008-2022-osint-focus-fake-news-and-disinformation-leading Sun, 27 Nov 2022 22:00:00 GMT The aim of the activity is to improve practitioners' performance by enhancing their knowledge on the difference between open-source intelligence (OSINT) and fake news that might lead to extremism, particularly the significance of social media in mobilising previously unpopular extremist movements.Up... 7756 at https://www.cepol.europa.eu https://www.cepol.europa.eu/training-education/36-2022-ons-darkweb-and-cryptocurrencies-advanced Sun, 13 Nov 2022 22:00:00 GMT The aim of the training activity is to enhance cooperation on cross-border cases by using TOR-network and Darkweb and by increasing skills to find virtual currencies (VC) in the course of criminal investigations as well as to identify the existence of a VC wallet, notably in the framework of searche... 3358 at https://www.cepol.europa.eu https://www.cepol.europa.eu/newsroom/partners-news/police-and-border-officers-fight-illegal-immigrants-cyberspace Tue, 11 Oct 2022 21:00:00 GMT The second decade of the 21st century has seen an unprecedented influx of migrants never seen since World War II, posing a great challenge for law enforcement agencies responsible for border and internal security of the European Union. Organised crime groups use diverse communication means and socia... 7785 at https://www.cepol.europa.eu https://www.cepol.europa.eu/training-education/34-2022-ons-open-source-intelligence-osint-and-it-solutions-2nd Sun, 18 Sep 2022 21:00:00 GMT The aim of the activitiy is to enhance cybercrime investigation by improving the collection, evaluation, analysis and distribution of information for the purpose of tackling all forms of crime, in particular terrorism and organised crime, and by improving intelligence collection, in qualitative and ... 3239 at https://www.cepol.europa.eu https://www.cepol.europa.eu/training-education/04-2022-ons-osint-facilitated-illegal-immigration Sun, 11 Sep 2022 21:00:00 GMT The aim of this activity is to strengthen the fight against migrant smuggling by improving the capability of law enforcement authorities on the use of OSINT in investigations of facilitated illegal immigration via enhancing the training capacities of Member States. 3342 at https://www.cepol.europa.eu https://www.cepol.europa.eu/training-education/webinar-3041-2022-osint-intelligence-versus-evidence Sun, 12 Jun 2022 21:00:00 GMT The aim of the webinar to improve practitioners' performance by enhancing their knowledge on the difference between intelligence and evidence.By the end of this webinar, the audience will be able to:distinguish the difference between information, intelligence and evidence;select evidence based on in... 3280 at https://www.cepol.europa.eu https://www.cepol.europa.eu/training-education/43-2022-ons-malware-investigation Sun, 01 May 2022 21:00:00 GMT The activity aims to enhance enhance cyber-investigation by obtaining information from the malware analysis process that will help locate criminals and their infrastructure. 3243 at https://www.cepol.europa.eu https://www.cepol.europa.eu/training-education/44-2022-ons-live-data-forensics Sun, 03 Apr 2022 21:00:00 GMT The activity aims to enhance cyber-forensic work of law enforcement investigators by providing them with an introduction to Live Data Forensics and to the use of Live Forensics investigative techniques. 3242 at https://www.cepol.europa.eu https://www.cepol.europa.eu/training-education/35-2022-ons-darkweb-and-cryptocurrencies-basics Sun, 27 Mar 2022 21:00:00 GMT The activity aims to enhance cooperation on cross-border cases by using TOR and Darkweb and by increasing skills to find virtual currencies (VC) in the course of criminal investigations as well as to identify the existence of a VC wallet, notably in the framework of computer searches. 3240 at https://www.cepol.europa.eu