How the world's police are taking on the Dark Net
Comey emphasized the Five Eyes partnership, an intelligence alliance between the U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the U.K., that plays a major role in cybercrime investigations, not to mention counterintelligence and counterterrorism.
The U.K. is currently making a concentrated effort to expand its cybercrime investigative reach around the world. The National Crime Agency (NCA), the country's equivalent of the FBI, is launching into a strategy to work with private security firms globally. The idea is explicitly modeled after the American example.
The Americans, meanwhile, are placing more agents overseas including permanent Cyber Assistant Legal Attachés in London, Ottawa, and Australia.
As far as the United States and its allies are concerned, the biggest problem in this world is apparently Russia, "where it's very hard for us to get cooperation and get the actors apprehended," Comey explained. "And so we have to hope to grab them when they leave the country and travel. The good news is, all the successful cybercriminals have lots of dough and want to go on vacation and that's where, with our partners, we grab 'em up."
Good old Non-Disclosure Agreements.