Interpol’s coordinated, large-scale operation ended with significant results, during which more than 41 cybercriminals were arrested and a large number of hardware owned by criminals was seized. As part of Operation Synergia II, the police in 95 countries raided individuals linked to phishing and ransomware attacks in cooperation with key players in the IT security sector, such as Group-IB, Trend Micro, Kaspersky and Team Cymru.
Operation Synergia II lasted from April to August 2024, covering countries in Europe, Africa and the APAC region. Law enforcement agencies managed to shut down 1,037 servers in China, while more than 80GB of server data were seized in Estonia. In Mongolia, 21 houses were searched and 93 persons connected to crimes were identified.
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The international police organization arrested a total of 41 people and is investigating 65 more. A total of 22,000 IP addresses were blocked, while 59 servers and 43 other computing devices were seized. According to Interpol’s statement, with this global cooperation, it was possible to prevent hundreds of thousands of people from becoming victims of cybercriminals.
Interpol’s report also highlights that more and more people are using the opportunities provided by generative artificial intelligence in phishing attacks, and that information-stealing programs are increasingly the forerunners of ransomware attacks, with their use increasing by 70 percent compared to the previous year.
The first phase of Synergia took place between September and November 2023, when 31 arrests were made and 1,300 suspicious IP addresses and URLs were identified, which were used by criminals for phishing, banking malware and ransomware attacks.
Source: www.hwsw.hu
