#INTERPOL #FightAgainstCybercrime

🤝 Group-IB has contributed to the INTERPOL-led Africa Cyber Surge Operation to combat cybercrime on continent.

The Africa Cyber Surge Operation, a multinational cybercrime suppression operation focused on identifying cybercriminals and compromised infrastructure, was launched in July 2022. The operation’s strategic goal was to enhance cooperation between African law enforcement agencies to prevent, mitigate, investigate, and pursue threat actors.

Several key results of the operation included:

▪️the arrest of 10 individuals linked to scam and fraud activities worth $800,000;

▪️the takedown by the authorities in Eritrea of a darknet market that was selling hacking tools;

▪️action taken against more than 200,000 pieces of malicious infrastructure that was facilitating cybercrime across Africa.

For this operation Group-IB collected information about malicious and phishing network infrastructure hosted within member countries in Africa. Group-IB investigators leveraged the company’s sector-leading Threat Intelligence to produce a detailed report along with recommendations for the member countries.

“The Africa Cyber Surge Operation is another example of how cybersecurity is most effective when international law enforcement, individual nations, and private sector partners cooperate to share best practices and take a proactive approach to stamping out cybercrime. Group-IB is fully committed to its zero-tolerance policy to cybercrime, and our recent participation in the Africa Cyber Surge Operation underscores our desire to collaborate with our law enforcement partners and share best practices and information on the latest cyber threats,” Dmitry Volkov, CEO at Group-IB, said.

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#scam #phishing #FIFA

⚽️ Football lovers, beware. Group-IB has identified multiple scam and phishing attacks targeting users looking for tickets, official merchandise, and jobs at the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar.

Ahead of the tournament, which kicked off on November 20, 2022, researchers from the Group-IB Digital Risk Protection team detected more than 16,000 scam domains, and dozens of fake social media accounts, advertisements, and mobile applications created by scammers aiming to capitalize on the huge global interest in the largest global football event. Group-IB’s sector-leading Threat Intelligence also helped to uncover more than 90 potentially compromised accounts on official FIFA World Cup 2022 fan portals.

⚽️ In one scam scheme scammers created a fake merchandise website and placed more than 130 advertisements on social media marketplaces in an attempt to drive traffic to the site. This website offers consumers branded t-shirts of the national teams participating in Qatar 2022, and users are asked to enter their bank card details or transfer money through payment systems displayed on the fake site in order to purchase a shirt. In the end, the scammers will either receive the money from the transaction or, in some cases, get the banking credentials of the user.

⚽️ Scammers also targeted those looking to purchase tickets for the games. To make this discovery, Group-IB tracked 5 websites and more than 50 social media accounts registered no earlier than September 2022 containing mentions of “FIFA”, “World Cup” and “tickets.” On the phishing websites, users who have been tricked into thinking that they are purchasing official tickets are asked to enter their bank card details or transfer money through the payment gateway provided on the website. Scammers will either receive the funds from the transaction, or in some cases, they steal the bank card details of the user, who will not receive any tickets.

These are not the only schemes that Group-IB has discovered. Check out our website to learn more👈

#WhitePaper #ThreatIntelligence

Is your security strategy for 2023 ready? The number of cyber-attacks on organizations is increasing rapidly; the attacks are becoming more complex and causing a growing amount of damage. Information about threats and potential attack vectors enables organizations to introduce pre-emptive strategies to thwart attackers’ plans.

Frost & Sullivan, an international research consulting firm, recently released a white paper entitled “Threat Intelligence: Insights for Pre-emptive Strategies against Cyber Adversaries”. The document explains how to use threat intelligence to build a data-driven defense plan for your board and gain the upper hand against adversaries. Check out the white paper👈

#scam #cybersecurity

🎄Winter holidays are just around the corner! It’s the season of giving and spending, and that's exactly when cyber criminals get their creativity boost.

We have put together the 8 top trending scams that your customers can fall bait to. Want to know how to protect your company and your customers in the holly jolly season? Our Digital Risk Protection experts give some really good tips on how to do it. Read our new blog post👈

🤝 Group-IB is pleased to announce that it has signed a partnership agreement with sirar by stc, a cutting-edge Saudi cybersecurity provider.

The agreement paves the way for Group-IB to provide its full stack of threat hunting and intelligence solutions to sirar by stc to bolster the cybersecurity options available to companies and organizations in Saudi Arabia. These solutions include Group-IB’s Attack Surface Management and Digital Risk Protection. sirar by stc will be able to offer Group-IB’s solutions as a managed service to their customers, to ensure that they have better visibility on their attack surface.

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