France’s National Judicial Police has arrested 13 suspects linked to an organized crime group behind the large-scale theft and trafficking of SUVs to West Africa. The operation was the result of a two-year investigation involving [c]
The Spanish National Police, in cooperation with the Spanish Tax Agency, Europol and INTERPOL, have dismantled an organized crime group suspected of fixing sporting events as well as using technology to place bets ahead of [c]
A notorious ‘phishing-as-a-service’ (PaaS) platform known as ‘16shop’ has been shut down in a global investigation coordinated by INTERPOL, with Indonesian authorities arresting its operator and one of its facilitators, with another arrested in Japan. [c]
INTERPOL and AFRIPOL have coordinated an operation across 25 African countries that enabled investigators to arrest 14 suspected cybercriminals and identify 20,674 suspicious cyber networks, highlighting the surge in digital insecurity and cyber threats in [c]
An INTERPOL crackdown on West African organized crime has seen bank accounts frozen, suspects arrested, and financial investigations triggered worldwide. Between 15 and 29 May, Operation Jackal mobilised police forces, financial crime units and cybercrime [c]
INTERPOL has concluded a two-year global operation to bring to justice criminals operating networks of child sexual abuse websites designed to generate profits from advertising. Running from December 2021 to July 2023, Operation Narsil also [c]
Over the last four years, a highly-organized criminal organization has targeted financial institutions and mobile banking services with malware, phishing campaigns and large-scale Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams. Known as OPERA1ER, with aliases such as [c]
Authorities have safeguarded victims aged 19 months, 7 and 9. [c]
Kaspersky has contributed to INTERPOL’s Africa Cyber Surge Operation (ACSO) by sharing data, comprising of indicators of compromise (IoCs) on various cyberthreats and types of cybercriminal activity targeting African countries. The evidence provided the grounds [c]
An INTERPOL police operation to tackle online fraud has seen almost 1,000 suspects arrested and the seizure of $129,975,440 worth of virtual assets. Fraud investigators around the world worked together over five months (28 June [c]
Law enforcement officials from 27 INTERPOL countries joined forces in the Africa Cyber Surge Operation in an effort to counter cybercrime across the continent. Against the backdrop of the huge financial losses suffered by companies, [c]
INTERPOL has served as a unique and powerful cooperation platform to combat online child sexual exploitation, for more than 20 years. Currently containing more than 4.3 million videos and images, INTERPOL’s International Child Sexual Exploitation [c]
More than 60 per cent of respondents rank crimes such as money laundering, ransomware, phishing and online scams as high or very high threats according to INTERPOL’s inaugural Global Crime Trend report The findings state [c]
After the headlines that emerged earlier this month on the arrest of two suspected online scammers in South Africa lies a global police operation coordinated by INTERPOL. Codenamed Operation Jackal, the joint law enforcement effort mobilized [c]
In June 2022, INTERPOL launched a public awareness campaign warning Internet users of a dramatic increase in digital extortion threats. Under the banner #YouMayBeNext and supported by 75 INTERPOL member countries and 21 public or private entities, [c]
INTERPOL’s Financial Crime and Anti-Corruption Centre (IFCACC) has launched a global awareness campaign to highlight the massive use of money mules in facilitating the movement of criminal proceeds. Money mules are people recruited by criminals, [c]
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