{"id":237362,"date":"2026-05-19T02:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/interpol-operation-ramz-disrupts-mena-cybercrime-networks-with-201-arrests"},"modified":"2026-05-19T02:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:22:12","slug":"interpol-operation-ramz-disrupts-mena-cybercrime-networks-with-201-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/interpol-operation-ramz-disrupts-mena-cybercrime-networks-with-201-arrests","title":{"rendered":"INTERPOL Operation Ramz Disrupts MENA Cybercrime Networks with 201 Arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/interpol-operation-ramz-disrupts-mena-cybercrime-networks-with-201-arrests.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Group-IB, which was one of the private sector companies that participated in the effort, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.group-ib.com\/media-center\/press-releases\/operation-ramz\/\">said<\/a> it provided \u201cactionable intelligence\u201d on over 5,000 compromised accounts, including those that were associated with government infrastructure, and shared details about active phishing infrastructure across the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCybercrime is borderless, and the only effective response is one that is equally borderless,\u201d Joe Sander, CEO of Team Cymru, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20260518604133\/en\/Team-Cymru-Supports-INTERPOLs-Operation-Ramz-Helping-Disrupt-Cybercrime-Across-the-MENA-Region\">said<\/a>. \u201cOperation Ramz is exactly that kind of response, law enforcement and trusted private-sector partners pooling intelligence, moving in concert, and dismantling the infrastructure that criminals depend on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Countries that took part in Operation Ramz included Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Tunisia, and the U.A.E.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group-IB, which was one of the private sector companies that participated in the effort, said it provided \u201cactionable intelligence\u201d on over 5,000 compromised accounts, including those that were associated with government infrastructure, and shared details about active phishing infrastructure across the region. \u201cCybercrime is borderless, and the only effective response is one that is equally [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}