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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Martin Bentham

Spies to help catch criminals exploiting ‘cloak of invisibility’ online

Spies will be used to help law enforcers remove the anonymity of criminals operating online in a new drive to combat growing tech threats, the head of the National Crime Agency revealed on Tuesday.

Graeme Biggar, the director general of the NCA, said that fraudsters, drug dealers, sex offenders and people smugglers were among the organised criminals seeking to exploit a “cloak of invisibility” online to target victims.

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