{"id":53364,"date":"2023-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:uuid:981f3330-bf7f-053d-8222-39eb5fb39dea"},"modified":"2023-08-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T00:00:00","slug":"interpol-trend-to-fight-african-cybercrime-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/interpol-trend-to-fight-african-cybercrime-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERPOL + Trend to Fight African Cybercrime Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cybersecurity vendors and law enforcers play a symbiotic role in tackling cybercrime. Solution and service providers like Trend Micro help to keep customers safe from attacks. But these attacks will keep on coming unless we discomfort and disrupt the threat actors themselves. This is the job of INTERPOL and its member organizations.<\/p>\n

Trend is committed to forging strong alliances with our law enforcement partners around the world. We were delighted to make a significant contribution to the Africa Cyber Surge II<\/a> operation, which has had a significant impact across 25 countries on the continent.<\/p>\n

Tackling cybercrime across Africa<\/span><\/p>\n

Cybercrime is a global phenomenon with a long history in Africa. The Nigerian 419 scam was for years a staple of email-based fraud, and today its modern successors range from phishing and business email compromise (BEC) to romance scams. As countries across the continent digitize at a rapid pace, local criminal gangs are realizing they have a potentially massive pool of victims to target both at home and abroad.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why we\u2019re joining INTERPOL\u2019s Africa Surge operation. Following a successful campaign to counter cybercrime on the continent last year<\/a>, the policing alliance ran a four-month sequel beginning in April 2023. Law enforcers in 25 countries participated, under the auspices of the INTERPOL Africa Cybercrime Operations Desk and INTERPOL\u2019s Support Program for the African Union in relation to AFRIPOL (ISPA). Police made 14 arrests and identified a massive 20,674 suspicious cybercrime networks linked to losses of over $40m.<\/p>\n

Along with our partners, we were able to share information on:<\/p>\n