Security · Updated 22 Oct, 01:57 pm IST
Operation Serengeti III disrupts nearly 11,000 cybercrime networks in Africa
Why it matters for readers: It matters because it shows international cooperation can seize illegal funds and stop many cybercrime operations in one coordinated action.
- Operation Serengeti III ran between June 29 and August 31 and was coordinated by Interpol with 21 countries participating.1
- Authorities dismantled 10,909 malicious networks and arrested 1,462 suspected cybercriminals during the operation.1
- Law enforcement recovered more than $105 million in illegal funds and identified estimated financial losses of over $385 million affecting 65,929 victims.1
- The operation targeted business email compromise, ransomware, online scams and malicious mobile lending apps, and included private partners such as Team Cymru, Kaspersky, Group-IB, and Fortinet.1
- Country-specific actions included arrests of 365 people in Uganda, seizure of over 2,000 crypto-mining devices and nine arrests in Angola, and one arrest in Nigeria linked to a large-scale phishing and BEC operation.1
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