Extract from Edward Lewis’s article “Combating Cross-Border Cybercrime Requires Cross-Border Legal Collaboration”
As we move through 2025, technological innovation is set to accelerate even further.
AI is fundamentally changing the way we work, make decisions and create value. It’s a pace of change that offers significant opportunities—the hyper-personalization of service offerings, new business models and sector-specific advancements. However, we must not be blind to the challenges that new technologies present.
AI is double-edged. While it empowers businesses, the very same capabilities it offers are being leveraged by bad actors that aim to do businesses harm.
Not only are they using technologies to find new ways to exploit enterprise vulnerabilities, they are increasingly working together to share the spoils of collaborative cyberattacks. There’s a whole underground ecosystem where hackers share software exploits, skills and resources. Some are access brokers that specialize in breaching systems before selling that access on. Others create ransomware and rent out the use of tools to other criminals for a fee or piece of the pie in successful attacks.
These groups are organized, efficient and good at what they do. Stopping them? It’s tough—particularly when threat actors work together across borders.
