14 electronic thieves who stole $40 million are detained by Interpol.
14 electronic criminals were detained as part of a global law enforcement operation overseen by INTERPOL that was suspected of being part of the Africa Cyber Surge II operation, which began in April.
During the four-month operation, which included 25 African nations, more than 20,000 electronic crime networks engaged in online fraud, fraudulent hunts, and blackmail were disrupted, resulting in more than $ 40 million in losses.
Hundreds of malicious IP (Internet Protocol) addresses that hosted harmful programs and assisted in the distribution of dangerous programs were also removed by the authorities in addition to the arrests.
In particular, 3,786 servers for damaging orders and control, 14,134 IP addresses for victims connected to data theft concerns, 1,415 linkages, a fraudulent hunting range, and 939 IP frauds are included in Interpol and its partners' list of partners.
Group-IB, one of Interpol's collaborators in gathering intelligence data from African regions, recently revealed that it has given law enforcement agencies more than a thousand indicators about the dangerous infrastructure on the continent.
The company stated in its blog, "This information helped many removal operations in the member states of the African Interpol," the company mentioned in its blog.
The operation led to the arrest of 3 individuals in Cameroon, where the police closed two sites on the dark network, on suspicion of online technology fraud of $ 850,000.
In addition, the operation led to the detention of a person in Nigeria on suspicion of ridding a Gambian victim, detaining two people in Mauritius about fraud from the messaging platform, and removing 185 IP addresses in Gambia that participated in destroyed activities and pre-emptive cooperation.
In recent months, INTERPOL has been battling cybercrime, disrupting millions of activities and seizing commonly used crime platforms.
The company revealed the shutdown of the reputable 16shop platform and the arrest of its chief operator ten days ago.
The African INTERPOL branch (African) seized a suspect in July who was allegedly a key figure in the Opera1er e-crime organization, which is thought to have been behind at least 35 attacks between 2018 and 2022 that resulted in damage of more than $11 million.
It is noteworthy that the first (Cyber Africa boom) was implemented in November of last year and led to the detention of 11 people, the elimination of the dark network market that offers piracy tools, and the disruption of 200,000 points of infrastructure that assisted in the spread of harmful programs, fraudulent hunting, RAM, and fraud.
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