A suspected senior member of the hacker group OPERA1ER has been arrested in Operation Nervone, performed collectively by a number of worldwide regulation enforcement businesses, Interpol stated in a press note.
“Following in depth cooperation, Interpol, Afripol, Group-IB, and C?te d’Ivoire’s Route de l’Info et des Traces Technologiques (DITT) are asserting the arrest of a suspected senior member of the group, dealing a big blow to their prison actions,” Interpol stated.
OPERA1ER — also called NX$M$, DESKTOP Group, and Frequent Raven — has been operational for over 4 years. It’s a extremely organized prison group that has focused monetary establishments and cellular banking providers with malware, phishing campaigns, and large-scale business email compromise (BEC) scams.
“The group is believed to have stolen an estimated $11 million — probably as a lot as $30 million — in additional than 30 assaults throughout 15 international locations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America,” Interpol stated.
Operation Nervone
Operation Nervone was backed by two key Interpol initiatives — the African Joint Operation in opposition to Cybercrime, and the Interpol Assist Programme for the African Union, which works with the AU’s Afripol intergovernment police coordination company. The initiatives are funded by the UK’s International, Commonwealth & Improvement Workplace and Germany’s Federal International Workplace, respectively.
“In early June, authorities in C?te d’Ivoire had been capable of arrest a key suspect linked to assaults in opposition to monetary establishments throughout Africa,” Interpol stated in its launch.
