🤝 Group-IB has assisted in the INTERPOL-led Operation Nervone, aimed at successfully disrupting the operations of the cybercriminal syndicate OPERA1ER in French-speaking Africa.

Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence and High-Tech Crime Investigations units, which have tracked OPERA1ER for more than four years alongside Orange-CERT-CC, provided timely intelligence that uncovered the identity and potential location of a key member of the cybercriminal group, who was subsequently detained in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

The group managed to carry out more than 30 successful attacks against financial institutions, banks, mobile banking services, and telecommunications companies in Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Gabon, Niger, Nigeria, Paraguay, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Togo, and Argentina between March 2018 and October 2022.

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🔎 Bringing down 16shop: Group-IB assists INTERPOL-led international operation

Group-IB has assisted in an INTERPOL-led operation aimed at disrupting the activities of 16shop, a notorious phishing-as-a-service platform on which phishing kits were sold. The successful operation led to the shutdown of 16shop and the arrest of the site’s operator and two facilitators.

Group-IB’s Cyber Investigations team in the APAC region supported the operation by analyzing the infrastructure used by the suspect and collecting their digital traces to ultimately establish their identity. Group-IB’s experts also helped to identify some victims in Indonesia.

Data collected by Group-IB indicates that more than 150,000 phishing domains were created using the phishing kits in question. The phishing kits sold on 16shop were utilized to target users in Germany, Japan, France, the USA, the UK, Thailand and other countries.

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🌍Africa Cyber Surge II operation: Group-IB assists in crime-fighting initiative that leads to arrest of 14 suspected cybercriminals

Group-IB has played a key role in the INTERPOL-led Africa Cyber Surge II operation, a multinational collaborative initiative tasked with preventing, mitigating, and disrupting threat actors on the African continent.

Here’s the rundown of this successful crime-fighting program:

📌 Africa Cyber Surge II began in April 2023, bringing together INTERPOL, AFRIPOL, Group-IB, and other private sector companies to pool actionable intelligence on cyber extortion, phishing, business email compromise, and online scams.

📌 The Africa Cyber Surge II operation spanned 25 African countries, leading to the arrests of 14 suspected cybercriminals and the identification of more than 20,000 suspicious cyber networks linked to financial losses in excess of $40m

📌 Group-IB, a long-standing private sector partner of INTERPOL, collected and shared more than 1,000 indicators related to malicious infrastructure across Africa.

📌 INTERPOL member states in Africa leveraged Group-IB’s intelligence in several takedown operations.

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🌐 Fighting cybercrime together!

Group-IB played a pivotal role in Operation Synergia, a INTERPOL-led initiative across 50+ countries targeting cybercrime. Our experts identified over 500 phishing sites and 1,900+ malware IP addresses. Collaboration with law enforcement led to 31 arrests and the takedown of numerous C2 servers. Learn more in our press release.

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🤝 Group-IB and INTERPOL have extended their strategic partnership with the formalization of an agreement aimed at reducing the global impact of cybercrime. The signing ceremony took place in Singapore and was witnessed by Dmitry Volkov, Group-IB's CEO, and Stephen Kavanagh, INTERPOL’s Executive Director of Police Services.

This collaboration builds upon a series of successful joint anti-cybercrime operations throughout 2023 and solidifies our shared mission to fight against cybercrime on a global scale.

Learn more via our press release.

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🛡️Once again, Group-IB stepped to the fore in supporting INTERPOL with another crime-nabbing operation.

Curious about the details behind the Grandoreiro malware operation? Read our latest press release.

Group-IB Threat Intelligence and Cyber Investigation specialists excelled in assisting with malware investigations and analysis, which helped narrow down suspects linked to the organized crime group.

🎓"Disrupting the Grandoreiro malware operation reaffirms the ever-strong public-private dynamic in investigating and fighting cybercrime to protect local businesses and citizens.” - Group-IB's CEO, Dmitry Volkov.

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We are delighted to have contributed to INTERPOL's "Operation Contender 2.0." which led to the arrest of two individuals by the Nigerian Police Force for their role in a romance scam that resulted in significant financial losses for a victim in Finland.

As an INTERPOL Gateway Partner, Group-IB provided vital intelligence that helped law enforcement pinpoint and apprehend these cybercriminals. Our ongoing support for Operation Contender 2.0 reflects our commitment to combating digital crime and protecting victims worldwide.

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Group-IB joined forces with INTERPOL and law enforcement agencies alongside 95 countries to disrupt the surge of phishing, ransomware, and info-stealing malware. Through "Operation Synergia II," we identified over 2,500 IP addresses tied to phishing and 1,300+ IPs linked to malware across, resulting in the takedown of more than 22,000 malicious servers. In total, 22,000+ malicious servers were taken offline, and 41 suspects were arrested worldwide.

Highlights of this operation include:

📍 Hong Kong: 1,037 malicious servers taken offline.
📍 Mongolia: 21 house searches conducted, with 93 suspects identified.
📍 Estonia: 80GB+ of server data seized to analyze links to phishing and banking malware.

Our CEO, Dmitry Volkov, highlights the importance of global collaboration: "As an INTERPOL Gateway Partner, we firmly believe that closer collaboration between the public and private sector will not only tackle cybercrime in all its guises more effectively but also safeguard the information and data of users and businesses globally."

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Group-IB provided critical investigative intelligence supporting INTERPOL's Operation Contender 3.0, a successful multinational cybercrime takedown across Africa. The operation resulted in the arrest of 260 suspects and the seizure of 1,235 electronic devices linked to 81 cybercriminal infrastructures.

These networks, involved in romance scams and sextortion schemes, caused nearly US$2.8 million in financial losses affecting 1,463 identified victims. Our collaboration with international law enforcement underscores a shared commitment to dismantling criminal operations that cause both financial devastation and profound psychological harm.

This operation highlights the critical importance of public-private partnerships in the ongoing fight against cybercrime.

Read the full press release for detailed insights.

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