NCA Leads International Cybercrime Exercise

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has hosted a major international cybercrime response exercise designed to test how effectively multiple agencies can react to a simulated cyber attack. Exercise Silver Shadow was funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) with backing from the Home Office, with officers from the FBI as well as Bulgaria, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine taking part. The exercise was an opportunity to assess their ability to respond collectively to an incident at a fictitious international petroleum company, whilst building stronger inter-agency partnerships in the process.