A continent-wide law-enforcement operation coordinated by INTERPOL resulted in 1,462 arrests and the disruption of 10,909 cybercrime networks across Africa, with more than US$105m in illicit assets seized. The operation targeted the infrastructure and money flows behind online fraud, business email compromise and digital extortion rather than isolated offenders, and involved national police services across the continent working with INTERPOL's cybercrime directorate. The scale of the takedown — both the network count and the seized value — makes it one of the largest coordinated cybercrime actions reported this year, and it follows a run of regional operations in which investigators have paired arrests with the seizure of the payment and hosting infrastructure that supports the fraud economy.

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