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INTERPOL Operation Red Card 2.0 Arrests 651 in African Cybercrime Crackdown

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STIX ID: report--c3ce259c-8851-59a6-960f-398deb8cf1af

Feed Name: The Hacker News

Threat Score
60/100

Date Published: 2026-02-19

Date Updated: 2026-04-24

Author: [email protected] (The Hacker News)

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Operation Red Card 2.0 was an eight-week INTERPOL-coordinated law enforcement operation (Dec 8, 2025–Jan 30, 2026) across 16 African countries that targeted organized online scams—high-yield investment fraud, mobile money fraud, and fraudulent loan apps—resulting in 651 arrests, seizure of 2,341 devices, takedown of 1,442 malicious IPs/domains/servers, recovery of over USD 4.3 million, and exposure of roughly USD 45 million in victim losses.

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