Africa cybercrime crackdown nets 1,462 arrests and over $105 million Police in 21 countries arrested 1,462 suspects and took down 10,909 malicious networks in Operation Serengeti III, an INTERPOL-coordinated cybercrime sweep across Africa that ran from June 29 to August 31, 2026. Investigators recovered more than $105 million in illicit funds. Financial investigators tied the networks to losses exceeding $385 million and identified 65,929 victims of fraud, ransomware, business email compromise, online scams and digital extortion. Twenty of the countries were African, and the 21st was the United States. Before the operation began, INTERPOL gave investigators intelligence on suspicious domains, IP addresses and command-and-control infrastructure, the servers criminals use to send…