Interpol exposes the weakest tires in Africa in cyber security

• Interpol’s operation from June to August in Angola, Zambia and Ivory Coast leads to the recovery of more than $ 97.4 million.
• Speurneuzen from 18 countries in Africa collaborated with British researchers to tackle scams that cut surviving scams, ransomware and compromise -e -mails tailored to Swindle Businesses.
• In Angola, 20 Chinese, who reportedly became cryptocurrency among the arrested.

Between June and August of this year, Interpol arrested 1,209 suspected cyber criminals, barely a year after cracking another 1000 people about the same criminal activity, unraveling the growing footprint of the developing crime in African cities.

According to an update from Interpol last week, the last cities in cities in Angola, Zambia and Ivory Coast led to the restoration of an estimated $ 97.4 million, which underlines, underlines money that promised money quickly and therefore successful victims.

In barely a year after another battle that led to the arrest of 1,000 cyber criminals, Interpol Two-Month Operation acts as a wake-up call among authorities to stimulate cyber security controls in the light of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI)-based attacks.

“The operation was reinforced by cooperation in the private sector, where partners who provide information and training to help researchers effectively identified researchers and perpetrators. This intelligence was shared with participating countries prior to the operation, which provided critical information about specific threats,” Brand of interpols, Dominen, Dominen, Dominen.

Interpol’s Serengeti 2.0 editing

In a sting operation called Serengeti 2.0, searches from 18 countries in Africa worked together with Hawkey researchers from the United Kingdom in a joint plan to tackle emerging cyber crimes, such as inheritance, ransomware and compromis e -mails that are tailored to swendle businesses and their executives.

Interpol said that the Burst-Up had limited itself to around 88,000 victims who were all aimed in a mix of online scam and cryptocurrency-mining deviations. A total of 11,432 malignant infrastructures were destroyed during the operation.

Cryptocurrency Mining Scam in Angola

In oil-rich Angola, Interpol said that it was able to dismantle 25 cryptocurrency mining centers during the two-month operation that also led to the arrest of 20 Chinese nationals, who are reportedly Cryptocurrency the South African country mining.

Moreover, more than $ 37 million in equipment was seized by the cryptocurrency miners in Angola. Authorities in Luanda reported that they will use this equipment to improve the electricity distribution to disadvantaged zones.

What is more, in neighboring Zambia, Serengeti 2.0 Sting operation has activated the collapse of a virtual investment program, which is said to have decorated more than 65,000 people who have decorated them of about $ 300 million in scammers that have been formed as cryptocurrency investments.

“The scammers lured victims to invest in cryptocurrency by extensive advertising campaigns that promise promising returns. Victims were then instructed to download multiple apps to participate,” Interpol said.

It added that a maximum of 15 suspects were arrested in Zambia, complete with the mobile phones, bank account numbers and the online domains that were used to cheat thousand people.

Human trafficking syndicate

In what seems to be a growing criminal network in the Land van Zuid -Africa, Interpol said that his research disrupted a presumably syndicate for human trafficking.

“In Zambia, the authorities also identified a scam center and disrupted a suspected network for human trafficking in joint operations in the immigration department in Lusaka. They seized 372 forged passports from seven countries.”

Cyber ​​criminals who undertook transnational inheritance scammers were also stopped on their spurs in Ivory Coast, where thousands of victims were lured to commit huge sums of money to not seeking existing inheritance, which led to the loss of approximately $ 1.6 million.

“Although it is one of the oldest internet fraud, inheritance solution continues to generate considerable funds for criminal organizations,” Interpol noted.

ValDency Urquiza, Secretary -General of InterpolSaid: “Every interpol-coordinated operation builds on the last, deepening of cooperation, increasing the sharing of information and developing research skills in the Member States. With more contributions and shared expertise, the results continue to grow in scale and impact. This worldwide network is stronger than ever, delivering real results and security of victims.”

Interpol’s Operation Serengeti 2.0 was performed under the African joint operation against cyber crime initiative It is financed by the British foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. At the moment the operational partners are: Kaspersky ,, Fortinet, Trend Micro, TRM Labs and Uppsala Security, Group-IB, Team Cymru, The Shadowerver Foundation and Cybercrime Atlas.

Over the continent, the participating countries are: Kenya, Mauritius, Chad, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Seychelles, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Angola, Benin, Camera, Kamoen, Ghana, ZamBwe.

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