Overview

• The June–August operation spanned 18 African countries plus the United Kingdom, dismantled 11,432 malicious infrastructures, and identified nearly 88,000 victims.
• In Angola, police shut 25 illegal crypto‑mining centers, arrested 60 Chinese nationals, and seized 45 illicit power stations and equipment valued at over $37 million for redeployment to support power distribution.
• Zambian authorities broke up an app‑based crypto investment fraud that cost about 65,000 victims roughly $300 million, arresting 15 suspects and seizing domains, mobile numbers, and bank accounts.
• Also in Zambia, investigators disrupted a suspected human trafficking network and confiscated 372 forged passports, while Côte d’Ivoire dismantled a Germany‑linked inheritance scam causing about $1.6 million in losses and arrested the primary suspect.
• Conducted under the African Joint Operation against Cybercrime with UK FCDO funding and support from firms including Group‑IB, Fortinet, Kaspersky, Trend Micro, TRM Labs, Shadowserver, Team Cymru, Cybercrime Atlas, and Uppsala Security, the campaign pairs training and prevention with ongoing follow‑ups, with officials attributing total losses near $485 million and anticipating further arrests.