GoKawiilMore than 200 individuals were arrested for cybercrime activities during INTERPOL's Operation Ramz, which focused on the Middle East and North Africa.
Law enforcement also identified another 382 suspects across 13 countries (Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Tunisia, and the UAE).
In addition to the arrests, authorities seized 53 servers used for phishing, malware, and online fraud that affected at least 3,867 confirmed victims, as determined from nearly 8,000 intelligence packages retrieved from the equipment.
“The operation focused on neutralizing phishing and malware threats, as well as tackling cyber scams that inflict severe cost to the region,” reads the INTERPOL announcement.
Seized devices in Jordan
Source: INTERPOL
INTERPOL collaborated with several private cybersecurity firms to track the malicious infrastructure, including Kaspersky, Group-IB, The Shadowserver Foundation, Team Cymru, and TrendAI.
Some highlights of ‘Operation Ramz’ include:
securing compromised devices unknowingly used to spread malware in Qatar
dismantling an investment scam operation in Jordan, where 15 trafficked workers from Asia were forced to run fraud schemes; two organizers were arrested
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