From March 19th to 21st, in Costa Rica, prosecutors from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ecuador, Honduras, Panama and Peru, participated in a training workshop on the technical and legal aspects of cybercrime, including the importance of international cooperation for effective prosecution of these offenses.

The training was organized by the OAS General Secretariat, through the Department of Legal Cooperation of the Secretariat for Legal Affairs, as Technical Secretariat of the REMJA (Ministers of Justices, other Ministers, Prosecutors and Attorney Generals of the Americas), in coordination with the US Department of Justice (USDOJ) and the Public Ministry ofr Costa Rica.

During the workshop, specialists from the USDOJ and the OAS provided training to prosecutors on:

• The importance of updated cybercrime legislation to facilitate mutual legal assistance
• Techniques use by criminals to attack computers
• Basic concepts of Internet
• Available international cooperation tools
• Evidence held by service providers
• Virtual currencies
• Analysis of digital evidence
• Investigative techniques and their challenges
• Technical aspects of cybercrime