2 dozen arrested, hundreds of IP’s taken down

I always like good news, and this one is no different. Two dozen arrested, hundreds of malicious IPs taken down in African cybercrime operation comes to us from our good friends at Cyberscoop.

We don’t know much about the African cybercrime market, but if this is any indication, it can be interesting.

While arrests are always good, we know that there will always be more waiting to take their place.

The first paragraph says:

An international law enforcement operation spanning more than two dozen African countries led to 14 arrests and the takedown of hundreds of malicious IP addresses and malware hosters, Interpol said Friday.

Another paragraph has some very interesting stats. That paragraph says:

The private sector reports supporting the operation included information on 3,786 malicious command and control servers, 14,134 victim IP addresses linked to data stealer cases, 1,415 phishing links and domains, 939 scam IPs and more than 400 other malicious URLs, IPs and botnets, according to the statement.

That’s a hell of a lot of stuff they found, don’t you think?

This is not the first time African things have been foiled. There’s a link to a Group IB report going back to 2022.

While the article is not long, I urge people to read this, as “The Shadow” says: “Crime does not pay.” He always knows what’s going on, and he’ll laugh you all the way to the guilty verdict if necessary.