The cybercrime and fraud operations, including fraudulent art sales, were linked to financial losses of more than $40 million.
August 18, 2023 By AJ VICENS
An international law enforcement operation spanning more than two dozen African countries led to 14 arrests and the takedown of hundreds of malicious IP addresses and malware hosters, Interpol said Friday.
Africa Cyber Surge II — led by Interpol and supported with information from Group-IB, Trend Micro, Kaspersky and Coinbase — launched in April 2023 and focused on identifying cybercriminals and compromised infrastructure, Interpol said in a statement.
The private sector reports supporting the operation included information on 3,786 malicious command and control servers, 14,134 victim IP addresses linked to data stealer cases, 1,415 phishing links and domains, 939 scam IPs and more than 400 other malicious URLs, IPs and botnets, according to the statement.
