🚨 INTERPOL operation targets Black Axe and other West African cybercrime networks across 22 countries

Operation Jackal IV resulted in 58 arrests and identified 263 suspects linked to organized crime groups involved in cyber-enabled financial fraud and money laundering.

The networks are tied to:

• Romance scams
• Cryptocurrency and investment fraud
• Business email compromise
• Money laundering
• Sextortion
• Crime-as-a-Service

In South Africa, authorities arrested 39 people, blocked 257 bank accounts, and seized $2.67M while targeting a syndicate running romance and investment scams against retirees.

Investigators in Argentina also identified 196 people linked to a Crime-as-a-Service network allegedly supplying domains and money-laundering services to West African criminal groups.

INTERPOL says some of these networks are increasingly using sextortion against minors as young as 14 and outsourcing criminal infrastructure through dark web service providers.

In other news, my swearing off of all drinks other than water is not working out today.

Both Xcancel and Nitter have had cease and desist letter from Twitter. You can still follow Twitter account on Mastodon via account@bird.makeup and the like. Eg @c_c_krebs

NEW from USCSB – Horrifically mundane design flaw in a single point of failure kills 6 workers by a chain of people trying to save their coworkers.
Fatal Fog: Liquid Nitrogen Release
https://youtu.be/-UoyIV6oZEc

🚨 Nitter development has stopped after X Corp. sent cease-and-desist letters demanding the permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project’s repository.

The maintainer says nitter.net is now offline while legal advice is being sought. Nitter had operated for more than seven years.

In lieu of flowers etc., Dolly Parton's reps ask that contributions in her memory be made to the Imagination Library.

https://www.imaginationlibrary.com/