Interpol’s Operation Serengeti III has supported arrests of 1,462 suspects tied to international cybercrime, with Kaspersky providing threat intelligence and technical analysis. The operation ran from June 29 to Aug. 31, with law enforcement agencies from 20 African countries and the United States taking part. Authorities said they recovered $105 million in criminal proceeds and identified about 66,000 victims, while estimating financial damage at $385 million. Kaspersky said it helped investigators from the preparation stage through its threat research center. It delivered data on network infrastructure used for botnets and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, plus information on phishing and malicious URLs targeting users in Africa. The third-year crackdown focused on international cybercrime groups behind ransomware, business email compromise (BEC), online fraud, and digital extortion. About 11,000 malicious networks linked to cybercrime were also blocked. Country-level enforcement included Uganda, where authorities dismantled two transnational criminal groups involved in online investment and pension scams and arrested 365 foreign suspects. In Angola, two illegal cryptocurrency mining facilities were uncovered and nine suspects were arrested. In Nigeria, a suspect behind a large-scale phishing and BEC scheme was arrested after stealing software account authentication information and obtaining about 2.1 million email addresses. The operation also led to an arrest in an international investment fraud case promoted via a messaging app. Interpol said follow-up investigations are ongoing, with investigators identifying additional suspects, tracing revenue flows, and analyzing digital evidence. INTERPOL’s cybercrime directorate head Neil Jutton said cybercrime groups operate across borders to target victims at an unprecedented scale.