Police sinkholes 45,000 IP addresses in cybercrime crackdown

Interpol led Operation Synergia III (July 2025–January 2026), involving 72 countries, sinkholed tens of thousands of IP addresses, seized 212 electronic devices/servers and made 94 arrests (with another 110 suspects under investigation); investigators in Macau identified over 33,000 phishing and fraudulent websites impersonating casinos, banks and government/payment services. The report references prior related operations (Synergia I/II and other Interpol-coordinated actions) that disrupted command-and-control infrastructure used in ransomware, phishing and malware campaigns, and includes a link to a separate malware analysis of 1.1 million samples.