What do you do when there are so many cases of cybercrime utilizing a myriad of different types of malware, and you’re the cop that has to dig through them all? Well, you build a massive system for automatically analysing malware from as many countries as possible, of course. In December 2013, Europol, one of Europe’s principle law enforcement agencies, launched the Europol Malware Analysis System (EMAS), which is designed to automatically detect and analyse malware, and to provide crucial information on cybercrime in the EU. Now, documents obtained by Motherboard explain how this system works, giving an insight into how law enforcement agencies are fighting crime in the 21st century. In essence, the EMAS is a system for testing whether files are malicious, letting investigators see what the files are designed to do, and then share that centrally-stored information across different European Union member states.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: Motherboard