Cops credit security shops with an assist, tho it's a drop in the ocean
Interpol, Afripol, and infosec companies Group-IB and Uppsala Security provided on-the-ground operational support, the international agency said. This included helping with three arrests in Cameroon related to an online scam involving the fraudulent sale of works of art worth $850,000.
Additionally, police in Nigeria arrested a suspect who allegedly defrauded a victim in Gambia, and police in Mauritius arrested two suspected money mules linked to messaging platform scams. Plus, Cameroonian authorities took down two darknet sites, and Kenyan law enforcement shut down 615 malware separate hosting operations.
Group-IB, which has previously worked with Interpol on previous operations, collected and shared more than 1,000 indicators from its threat intelligence, according to the security shop. "Collaboration and intelligence sharing should be at the heart of cybersecurity operations, and Group-IB stands ready to make a further contribution to this end, in line with our core strategic mission of fighting against cybercrime in all its forms," Group-IB CEO Dmitry Volkov said in aIn total, information shared by Group-IB and other private partners Trend Micro, Kaspersky, and Coinbase led to some 150 Interpol analytical reports containing intel on cyber threats targeting specific...
The most recent arrests follow several months of similar activity across Africa as international law enforcement attempts to disrupt cybercrime rings that operate out of several countries on the continent.
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