{"id":32380,"date":"2020-11-26T10:05:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T08:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=32380"},"modified":"2025-08-28T08:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T05:20:04","slug":"interpol-halts-activities-of-cybercriminals-who-attacked-500000-companies-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/interpol-halts-activities-of-cybercriminals-who-attacked-500000-companies-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Interpol halts activities of cybercriminals who attacked 500,000 companies worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a result of the operation dubbed \\”Falcon\\”, Interpol disrupted the activities of Nigerian cybercriminals who were stealing user data. ForkLog was told this by representatives of the cybersecurity firm Group-IB, which also participated in the operation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The group, named TMT, has since at least 2017 carried out mass breaches of corporate email and stolen user data from browsers, email, and FTP servers, including for sale.<\/span><\/p>\n

The attackers conducted phishing campaigns based on social engineering.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a result of their activities, no fewer than 500,000 government and private companies in more than 150 countries were compromised, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the \\”Falcon\\” operation, law enforcement arrested three cybercriminals. Upon arrest, Nigerian police found on their devices data relating to about 50 000 victims.<\/span><\/p>\n

The investigation continues.<\/span><\/p>\n

In October, as part of an international operation, arrested<\/span><\/a> 20 suspects in money laundering using cryptocurrency.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In October, as part of an international operation, the international authorities arrested 20 suspects in cryptocurrency\u2011facilitated money laundering. As described, Interpol disrupted Nigerian cybercriminals who were stealing user data, according to Group-IB, which participated in the operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1444],"class_list":["post-32380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-law-enforcement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"45","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32382,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32380\/revisions\/32382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}