WHAT WE DO

Julian Parsons -Merseyside Police Protect Officer.

A Little about me

JOINED MERSEYSIDE POLICE

2001

CYBER DEPENDENT CRIME TEAM

2022

FIREARMS AFO

2019

MATRIX DISRUPTION / SEACH TEAMS

2014

The CDCU

PREVENT

PURSUE

KICKSTART TEAM

POTECT

• Online Safety Advice to Victims of Cyber Crime
• Visits to Vulnerable Victims
• Workshops and Presentations to Schools and Businesses.
• Attendance at Events to provide support to partner organisations.
• Online and Practical Challenge Events.

01

PROTECT

Liaising with LP for SPOCS

SPOCS within LP

Develop partnership with variety of Cyber Secs

School Cyber Sec

Full and Kickstarter - funded places

Cyber EPQ

Visited College - Promoting further education

Liverpool UTC college

1-2-1s, Groups & workshops

Cyber First

Creation of Activities list - work alongside the one provided.

Activities List

02

PREVENT

THE CDCU INVESTIGATE ANY CYBER CRIME FROM A SIMPLE EMAIL OR SOCIAL MEDIA HACKING, UP TO A MULTI MILLION POUND COMPANY BEING HACKED AND RANSOMED. WE USE VARIOUS TOOLS INCLUDE BLOCKCHAIN ANALYSIS, IP ADDRESS TRACING, DEVICE DOWNLOADS AND CELLSITE ANALYSIS.

PURSUE

03

case study

Operation Ladder - 50 BitCoin theft.When stolen in 2017 worth approx - £150,000In 2022 it would have been worth - £1,650,00010 BitCoin recovered worth £420,000

The KYC deatails were returned and identified a suspect.

Chainalysis showed that the funds were split and partially sent to Wirex

A reuest was sent to Wirex for KYC Details

Advances in technology meant we were able to follow the Blockchain

AS IN ANY GOOD DETECTIVE FILM, WE FOLLOWED THE MONEY!

How did we do it?

Unauthorised access with intent to impair the operation of a computer.You're playing a game online and use a booting tool to kick your mate offline.Upto 10 years and/or fine

SECTION

03

Unauthorised Access w/i to commit or facilitate another offence. Having logged in using your friends password (Sec1) you then send yourself £10 using their account.Upto 5 Years and/or fine

Section

02

Unauthorised Access to computer material. You look over and see your friends username and password ... you remember this and later log in without them knowing to have a laugh.Upto 2 years and/or fine

SECTION

01

3 males between the ages of 11-13 playing Call of Duty. For a laugh, they were all using Booting tools to knock each other off the game. One of them input the IP address wrong and Booted a Doctors Surgery off for a Day instead.

CASE STUDY 2

• Check any emails you get and dont click on links within them.
• Install 2FA on anything you can.
• Verify any messages from family or friends before acting.
• Challenge any calls from Embassies especially if they are trying to scare or rush you.
• Protect your online identity.

HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF

ALL ONLINE CRIME AND FRAUD SHOULD BE REPORTED TO ACTION FRAUD INITIALLY"

thank you!