Interpol

Interpol and law enforcement agencies arrest 5,811 suspects and seize $293M in an operation combating social engineering scams and fraud across 97 countries

Interpol and law enforcement agencies arrest 5,811 suspects and seize $293M in an operation combating social engineering scams and fraud across 97 countries

An Interpol-led law enforcement action in 26 countries disrupted infostealer operations, leading to takedowns of 20K+ malicious IPs and domains and 32 arrests

An international law enforcement action codenamed “Operation Secure” targeted infostealer malware infrastructure …

A look at Interpol's innovation lab in Singapore for studying cybercrime, digital piracy, and more, and developing new techniques for bringing down criminals

Owen Walker / Financial Times :

Interpol says calling online scams “pig butchering”, a widely used phrase, is unhelpful as gangs “appear to have” created the phrase to describe victims

Experts say the catchall term for online fraud furthers harm against victims and could dissuade people …

Interpol arrested 1,006 suspects in 19 African countries from September 2 to October 31 to clamp down on cybercrime that left 35K victims with $193M in losses

Mark Banchereau / Associated Press :

Interpol says an operation across 95 countries took down 22K+ malicious IP addresses or servers linked to cyber threats and led to the arrest of 41 individuals

Interpol announced it arrested 41 individuals and taken down 1,037 servers and infrastructure running on 22,000 IP addresses …

Interpol: a global law enforcement operation led by South Korea seized $300M and led to the arrest of 3,500 cybercrime suspects between July and December 2023

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer :

Interpol shutters Indonesia-based “phishing-as-a-service” platform 16shop, used to create 150K phishing pages, compromising at least 70K people in 43 countries

A joint operation between Interpol and cybersecurity firms has led to an arrest and shutdown of the notorious 16shop phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform.

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment forms a global task force to identify and target online sports piracy with Interpol, Europol, DAZN, beIN, and more

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times :