Overview
- INTERPOL said Monday the four-month Operation Ramz across 13 Middle East and North Africa countries led to 201 arrests and the identification of 382 additional suspects.
- The crackdown targeted phishing schemes, malware and online fraud, with 53 servers seized and nearly 8,000 intelligence items shared that helped pinpoint about 3,867 victims.
- Authorities detailed on-the-ground actions that included shutting a phishing-as-a-service site in Algeria, securing compromised devices in Qatar and disabling a malware-infected home server in Oman.
- In Jordan, police raided an investment-fraud hub and found 15 people forced to run scams after traffickers seized their passports, then arrested two alleged organizers.
- The effort drew data and support from Group-IB, Kaspersky, the Shadowserver Foundation, Team Cymru and TrendAI, with backing from Qatar’s Interior Ministry and partial EU and Council of Europe funding, setting up further joint investigations.